'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says

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The deluge of data that hit the infrastructure provider was "so large that it (couldn't have) come from a couple of servers," said Tom Leighton, chief scientist and co-founder of Akamai. "Working with our network partners, we were able to identify a bot network that appeared to be operating and managed to shut it down, which resulted in stopping the attack."

Another person involved said "if" a networjk was involved.

So, the first question is, did they stop the attack by identifying the zombies and shutting them down?

The second question is, have they found a way to identify zombies that are not actively engaged in attacking. That would be good.

If not, I'd repeat a suggestion I made a while ago: a program that probes for vulnerable machines, enters using the vulnerability when it finds one, deposits cleaning software, phones home, and closes the vulnerabilities.
Can't be impossible for the good guys. It's about what the bad guys do.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 06/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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