> 2007: 1000 packets per hour is a "DDoS attack". Where do you get this from? If we're talking brute-force DDoS (overloading packet processing or link throughp

> 2007: 1000 packets per hour is a "DDoS attack". Where do you get this from? If we're talking brute-force DDoS (overloading packet processing or link throughput), 1000 packets/hr was certainly not a DDoS attack in 2007. In fact, you'd get much more than 1000 packets/hr on any machine connected to the internet even without doing anything. If you're talking about some smarter kind of DDoS (slowloris-style), then you can do a lot of damage with few packets. But that's a different attack and if you found similar flaws today you could exploit them with a similarly small number of packets. If you're referring to the timeline in your earlier quote, I don't think they mean that the initial load was intended to knock anything offline. It's just a classic ramp-up often used in DDoS attacks, because it lets you determine the targets breaking point exactly before you go all in.