Yes please Neil! thanks Christian Neil J. McRae wrote: > 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 >>
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