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Does anyone know how much traffic Anons botnets could generate? Surely it would be nowhere near enough to have any kind of impact on Amazon's cloud infrastructu
by digitalclubb 16y ago
Does anyone know how much traffic Anons botnets could generate? Surely it would be nowhere near enough to have any kind of impact on Amazon's cloud infrastructure..
Must be because of something else such as human error and just really bad timing?
- chubs 16y agoLast i heard, they had 1500 people running their LOIC app. So, not all that much...
- tybris 16y agoProbably just a BGP thing. The Internet is practically duct-taped together, sometimes the glue gets a little soft.
- SpikeGronim 16y agoSo far, I have seen no evidence for a 'BGP thing'.
- SpikeGronim 16y agoTheir most public attack tool, 'LOIC' [1], uses HTTP requests to try and exhaust a target website's connection capacity. It's a simple attack and the tool is flawed [2]. They're not trying to deny service at layer 3, they're attacking the layer 7 web app. It's relatively easy to detect these requests and shrug them off. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988045 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988045