Will EDoS be the next DDoS?

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All DDoS is 'EDoS' - this isn't a new concept.

Most DDoS for the better part of the last decade has been directly economically motivated - i.e., DDoS protection rackets, in which the attackers DDoS a victim, then send a demand for payment to make the DDoS stop. Another variation is DDoS-for-hire, in which an online business hires botmasters to DDoS rivals and drive them out of business. While ideologically- or nihilism-based DDoSes do occur, they are the exception, rather than the rule - and they're still based upon the economic premise of costing the defender more than he can afford in order to maintain availability.

Another commonplace form of attack is click-fraud, of which there are two variations - in the first, botmasters are paid to generate bogus clicks in order to generate payments from the ad network operator to the site admins, while in the second, a business pays a botmaster to perform bogus clicks on the ads of his buisness rivals, who're paying per-impression, in order to zero out his advertising budget.

So, it's important to understand that, far from being a new concept, economic warfare is the fundamental principle of DDoS, and always has been. This isn't something theoretical, which might happen in the future - it's taking place now, and has been for the better part of the last decade. It's very important that organizations work on hardening their infrastructure and work with their SPs in order to be prepared to defend themselves from DDoS, either direct attacks or the collateral damage spilling over from an attack against another organization.

Posted by: disambiguated   Posted on: 01/25/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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