Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

On 12/8/2010 10:41 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> <  1 Gbps attacks used to be standard issue but as of the past 90 days
> we have been seeing 2 - 8 Gbps a lot more frequently.

That may well be true. I'm an eyeball network and I can usually point at 
a user pissing someone off on IRC/Forums for DOS instigating. I probably 
deal with 1 large scale attack per year at most, though most likely my 
attacks are from smaller botnet owners.


Jack