Security experts have managed to DDoS systems with a $6 investment, and the use of their Thunder Clap program. I am surprised that it has taken somebody so long to do this in an official capacity.
I wonder when stolen credit card details will be used to create EC2 accounts, and do something far more devastating.
This is all very silly. Amazon cloud based attacks are easy to deal with after an abuse call as they are not DDoS at all.
ReplyDeleteIn an EC2 bandwidth flood all of the attack platforms, however many instances get spawned, come under common administrative domains.
The entire point of a DDoS is that they don't!
The EC2 attack may be a stungun, full of shock and awe and quite devestating in the moment but ultimately consists of limited shots of short duration from a known and source.
Conversely a botnet is like a universe full of individual antagonists with airguns... none of whom can be reasoned with.
Hmmm... Actually, that sounds like the estate where I grew up : )
Similarly, The Italian Job is a classic movie, but how about if the protagonists all fled in the same minibus. A minibus driven, incidentally, by someone entirely opposed to their antics.
Um, Yeeeeah...
-VXiT
Hi Gary. Thanks for the comment. I absolutely agree it's all very silly but it's one of those very interesting 'what if' scenario's.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm sure in this case we can all save the gold (mined from warcraft or elsewhere) when we're dangling over a cliff...