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the embarrassment here is that the education system can't mitigate against an attack so basic a 9yo can launch it, this isn't some targeted l7 flood from a huge
by rob_c 5y ago
the embarrassment here is that the education system can't mitigate against an attack so basic a 9yo can launch it, this isn't some targeted l7 flood from a huge botnet
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoHow do we know that this wasn't a huge botnet attack, hired by a 9 year old with mom's credit card? The article really doesn't say. I've heard it's cheaper and easier than ever before to buy a DDoS attack, and if the DDoS is at a rate of >1Gbps and the school has a 1Gbps connection, there isn't much you can do. (For website protection, you can use CloudFlare etc. For your network, you pretty much have to wait it out.)
- rob_c 5y agoYes, that's the embarrassment. In the UK at least these things are sorted out at a national level schools share the network from councils which shares it on a national backbone. Frankly given that is the state of things JISC really should have implemented better support for combating these attacks much sooner. The biggest problem is that up until a while ago a geographical attack used to knock out all resources North of that in the country. Trust me I work around the sector I know it's failings.