A new DDoS tool to be used in the China vs CNN attacks has surfaced (thanks for the tip!) has been released. This one is more flexible than the first, it lets you specify what targets you want to hit, indicating more flexible attacks in the near future may be afoot. But first, a quick [...]
Once again I find myself thinking about the nature of the asymmetric warfare threat posed by politically motivated DDoS (Estonia in 07, Korea in 02, and now China vs CNN in 08). I keep thinking about it in terms of asymmetric warfare, a class of warfare where one side is a traditional, centrally managed military [...]
Both Saturday and Sunday mornings my wife woke up, grabbed a quick bite to eat, and came back upstairs (I was sleeping in) to report, “CNN’s site seems fine.” She was right, of course, the site didn’t go offline. The attacks were planned, it seems, to coincide with actual, real world demonstrations. Stratfor, a commercial [...]