I was checking the news this morning and I came across this article:  https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

WTF?

It has to do with a DDOS attack that spawns from Cyberbunker being added to a blacklist.  Cyberbunker DDOS’s the hell outta some DNS servers if the Times News article is anywhere close.

Here is a quote from the article:  “The attacks are becoming increasingly powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to escalate people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like e-mail and online banking.”

The guys that write this shit suck.  People are pulled into it too.  Computer security experts are ‘worried’.  About fucking what?  Email and online banking?  Netflix?  Who cares if you cant access your shitty Netflix.  OMG I NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY I HAVE IN THE BANK NOW.  I WONDER IF GMA GOT MY EMAIL ABOUT THOSE COOKIES?  First world problems.

Another quote:  “These things are essentially like nuclear bombs,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. “It’s so easy to cause so much damage.  Matthew Prince.  Matthew fucking Prince…using 1950s sensationalism related to nuclear weapons to describe a fucking DDOS attack.  This guy is a real winner.  Its more like a giant traffic jam.  Deal with it.  The prince of sensationalism and is just glad to get his company in the headlines.  You should sign up for his services.

The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second.

OMG.  BILLION?!!?!  Thats like a lot right?

I like how John Markoff (The genius that wrote this glorious piece) finds a quote from Dan Kaminsky and adds it in:

“The No. 1 rule of the Internet is that it has to work,” said Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher who years ago pointed out the inherent vulnerabilities of the Domain Name System. “You can’t stop a DNS flood by shutting down those servers because those machines have to be open and public by default. The only way to deal with this problem is to find the people doing it and arrest them.”

I remember hearing Dan talk at Defcon and if he said this it was not because he wanted to be the only solution.  Considering the guy is so heavy into DNS and actual computer security I am sure he has another solution.  He may have even been talking or inferring about another solution in the same paragraph.

More crap written buy another jerk at Times News that is read by the millions of morons who support any solution to make them safer.  I wish these idiots would stop referring to DDOS attacks as anything more then what they are.