Friday, March 03, 2006
Competitive and retaliatory DDOS attacks
Empirical Film, which sells box-set DVDs online, missed nearly two weeks of holiday sales because of a DDOS attack it believes came from an overseas competitor. More than 10,000 Web servers were used in a bot net controlled from Asia, according to Prolexic Technologies, which offers anti-DDOS attack products.
As many as 1,000 other websites temporarily experienced slower service or were inaccessible because of the attack, says Jeff Posluns, chief information officer at SecuritySage Overdrive, which handles technology for Empirical, including its Web and security services.
At the same time, a U.S.-based drug firm's website was disrupted for 24 hours in what appeared to be an attack from the same source in Asia, says Prolexic.
The large attack was one of 10 observed in recent months by Rackspace Managed Hosting, which hosts the website of the drug company and 9,000 other firms. The FBI is probing the December attacks.
When online payment-processor StormPay booted some customers for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme, it quickly became the target of a virulent DDOS attack that temporarily knocked it off line this month.
About 120,000 machines were used in the attack, which hit websites in the Southeastern USA, as well as major telecom carriers, according to ISDN-Net, an Internet service provider in Tennessee that was affected.
StormPay did not return phone calls. It acknowledged the DDOS attacks in a note to customers on its website earlier this month
As many as 1,000 other websites temporarily experienced slower service or were inaccessible because of the attack, says Jeff Posluns, chief information officer at SecuritySage Overdrive, which handles technology for Empirical, including its Web and security services.
At the same time, a U.S.-based drug firm's website was disrupted for 24 hours in what appeared to be an attack from the same source in Asia, says Prolexic.
The large attack was one of 10 observed in recent months by Rackspace Managed Hosting, which hosts the website of the drug company and 9,000 other firms. The FBI is probing the December attacks.
When online payment-processor StormPay booted some customers for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme, it quickly became the target of a virulent DDOS attack that temporarily knocked it off line this month.
About 120,000 machines were used in the attack, which hit websites in the Southeastern USA, as well as major telecom carriers, according to ISDN-Net, an Internet service provider in Tennessee that was affected.
StormPay did not return phone calls. It acknowledged the DDOS attacks in a note to customers on its website earlier this month
Labels: Empirical Film
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