Comments on: Mafiaboy Speaks http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2008/10/mafiaboy-speaks/ A weblog dedicated to educating the community on security threats that matter Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Andre Gironda http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2008/10/mafiaboy-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-167194 Andre Gironda Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:50:25 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/?p=294#comment-167194 "So .. I .. uh .. compiled these C program with funny names like juno and bang on a Linux box that I borrowed from a friend". "Sometimes I'd run it in crontab with a kill statement after 4.9 minutes so it doesn't show up on an MRTG graph". "Make sure to exclude bogons from the source addresses". "Do that a couple times so that it adds up to about 38 hours in a month, and then you put the company out of business because of their IP transit costs". Actually, no. The kid had no idea what he was doing. He'd be lucky if he got that first sentence correct. And now the DoD and NETWARCOM wants to get into CNA. Maybe TCP SYN cookies will protect us. *Barf* It is so easy to protect yourself from DoS/DDoS since these types of attack began in 1994. Ask any services.int operator. How Fortune 500 failed to get this and allowed it to happen is why kids like Mafiaboy get to write books. *Puke* “So .. I .. uh .. compiled these C program with funny names like juno and bang on a Linux box that I borrowed from a friend”. “Sometimes I’d run it in crontab with a kill statement after 4.9 minutes so it doesn’t show up on an MRTG graph”. “Make sure to exclude bogons from the source addresses”. “Do that a couple times so that it adds up to about 38 hours in a month, and then you put the company out of business because of their IP transit costs”.

Actually, no. The kid had no idea what he was doing. He’d be lucky if he got that first sentence correct. And now the DoD and NETWARCOM wants to get into CNA. Maybe TCP SYN cookies will protect us. *Barf*

It is so easy to protect yourself from DoS/DDoS since these types of attack began in 1994. Ask any services.int operator. How Fortune 500 failed to get this and allowed it to happen is why kids like Mafiaboy get to write books. *Puke*

]]> By: Wizard http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2008/10/mafiaboy-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-166411 Wizard Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:08:30 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/?p=294#comment-166411 Wouldn't it be great if he was forced to direct the proceeds from the book sale to offset the costs of the investigation/damages/etc... Wouldn’t it be great if he was forced to direct the proceeds from the book sale to offset the costs of the investigation/damages/etc…

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