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

Enn Ay tburke1192 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 21:07:23 EDT 2013


Arbor Networks offers DDoS mitigation products. If you already knew that
and were being sarcastic, disregard this message ;)

- jtb
On Oct 23, 2013 3:31 PM, "Chick Tower" <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
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> A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks
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> 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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> Read more of this story
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