Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by Jweb_Guru on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:47AM (#12562584)

> Why wouldn't every device on the internet just spoof their IP if it was this obvious thing?

https://spoofer.caida.org/summary.php - compromise a device in one of the ASes not marked "unspoofable." Those ASes do not consistently perform packet ingress filtering.

That's not to say that DDOS attacks stop being possible, but at least they become traceable.

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by shaunol on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:01AM (#12562623)

I appreciate the response. I had no idea things were this bad.

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by x0 on Friday September 23, 2016 @07:22AM (#12563728)

Thank you, I've actually been interested in the answer to this question for many years! Never was able to solve it via googling.

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