[GLLUG] Fwd: A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks

[Chick Tower]

Hmmmm...Arbor Networks...Arbor Networks...seems like I've heard of that
somewhere before.


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Subject: 	A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks
Date: 	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:35:00 GMT
From: 	<Soulskill>



A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Check out the Digital Attack Map. It was produced
in a collaborative effort by Google Ideas and Arbor Networks to raise 
awareness about distributed denial of service attacks. You know, those 
malicious digital attempts to choke, or shutdown websites by sending 
them volumes of traffic far too large for them to handle. The map 
'surfaces anonymous attack traffic data to let users explore historic 
trends and find reports of outages happening on a given day,' as its 
about page explains. Created using attack data from Arbor's 'ATLAS® 
global threat intelligence system,' this is the D.A.R.E. of DDoS — it's 
about the danger of having information streams cut off.  Under the 
heading 'DDoS Attacks Matter,' Google and Arbor explain that 'sites 
covering elections are brought down to influence their outcome, media 
sites are attacked to censor stories, and businesses are taken offline 
by competitors looking for a leg up.'" This comes alongside Google's 
announcement of Project Shield, the company's homegrown DDoS mitigation 
service.

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