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> The Department of Homeland Security told CNBC that it is "looking into all potential causes" of the attack. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/major-websites-acr
by corvus_sapiens 10y ago
> The Department of Homeland Security told CNBC that it is "looking into all potential causes" of the attack.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/major-websites-across-east-coast-knocked-out-in-apparent-ddos-attack.html http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/major-websites-across-east-co...
Is this par for course for all large DDOS attacks or did something tip them off?
- krinchan 10y agoMore like for the first time in a long time, serious negative economic impact is occurring. I sincerely wish this was a wake up call, but it won't be.
- 464192002d7fe1c 10y agoFrom what I know of the situation (don't trust me, I'm not going to offer citations or sources), this attack wasn't particularly large in terms of gigabits/second. It was, however, very large in terms of economic impact. I would assume that when a large number of big enterprise-y things go down, HSI takes notice. When other providers get attacks that are 20x larger (gbit/sec), but have much less widespread impact and impact on less enterprise-y things, they don't care so much.