Information Protection and Security

While tweets went silent last week, hundreds of other DDoS attacks were under way around the globe -- and several more powerful ones.
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Between this incident and the recent DDoS attacks targeting both public and commercial Websites in the United States and South Korea, Web administrators are advised to take precautions to secure their own sites, said John Harrison, group product manager at Symantec Security Response. For starters, admins should have spare IP addresses registered as well as the ability to swap them in for attacked IPs via DNS. They should also familiarize themselves with the capabilities of their ISP and have a monitoring system to provide an early warning.

It is an axiom that “on the Internet nobody knows that you are a dog.” By the same token, it is all but impossible to know whether you are from North Korea or South Korea. That puzzle is plaguing law enforcement investigators in several nations who are now hunting for the authors of a small but highly publicized Internet denial-of-service attack that briefly knocked offline the Web sites of some United States and South Korean government agencies and companies.

A computer programmer from Pennsylvania could spend up to 10 years in prison if convicted of launching massive distributed denial of service attacks against Rolling Stone magazine and other sites. The case reveals that DDoS remains an effective and serious attack vector.
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Security experts are warning U.S. citizens and others not to join Iranian opposition hacktivists for fear that continued distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Iranian government and other Websites will backfire and prompt Iranian officials to cut off the country's outside Internet access altogether.
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