From my point of view; DDOS has been significant up for over a year now, notable step change in attacks, attack profiles and sophistication. Can perhaps pull together something that shows the step change if its of interest.
Cheers, Neil. On 09/12/2015, 17:44, "uknof on behalf of Keith Mitchell" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > >Indeed, in the absence of detailed public statements, analyzable data >would be a good thing. What's baffling me about these attacks is the >motivation - it's very much the season for online shopping extortion >attacks, and what happened to the root last week suggests there's a lot >of DDoS generally going on right now, but its not clear what's to be >gained from taking out academic infrastructure. I hope it's not some >deadline-shy undergrad using a booter site to avoid their assessments >("the DoS ate my homework"...), but sadly such things are not >inconceivable these days. > >Keith >
