Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? 206
alphadogg writes "As the distributed denial-of-service attacks spawned by this week's WikiLeaks events continue, network operators are discussing what progress, if any, has been made over the past decade to detect and thwart DoS attacks. Participants in the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) e-mail reflector are debating whether any headway has been made heading off DDoS attacks in 10 years. The discussion is occurring while WikiLeaks deals with DDoS attacks after leaking sensitive government information, and sympathizers launch attacks against MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and other significant e-commerce sites."
What is Anonymous? (Score:0, Funny)
A miserable pile of dead bodies in a hidden mass grave -but enough of that, have at you!
Re:Slashdot effect (Score:5, Funny)
How do you differentiate a DDoS attack from the usual slashdotting of a web site?
One is intentionally malicious with the intent to bring down the site. The other is usually the Botnet on Autopilot.