I have seen the folks from prolexic at work and they service/platform is impressive. On their spare time they take down botnets: http://www.prolexic.com/knowle

I have seen the folks from prolexic at work and they service/platform is impressive. On their spare time they take down botnets: http://www.prolexic.com/knowledge-center-ddos-vulnerability-disclosure-dirt-jumper.html http://www.prolexic.com/knowledge-center-ddos-vulnerability-... http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/ddos-take-down-manual/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/ddos-take-down-manua... Shameless plug for hackmiami, if anyone is interested in learning how its done up and close they run frequent talks/meetups locally: http://hackmiami.org/ http://hackmiami.org/