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World War 2.0: Estonia Bot Attack
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Will It Scale ? Let’s Hope Not
by Andrew McCaskey
The video today concerns the full attack that was conducted against Estonia – a bit of public awareness on the scope and severity of botnet attack on a small but well defended country.
The early hours of the attack concentrated upon newspapers, banks, radio and television sites and other critical infrastructure. Sound like a familiar strategy ? The quick reaction of the Estonians to purposely disconnect their networks from the outside world preserved their systems, and only through the cooperation of sys admins around the world was the attacking botnet neutralized one IP block at a time.
The question raised by the video is not will the attack scale – but will it scale quickly enough to be an offensive weapon against a determined defender. Conversely, if the defender is not payng attention the scale might not be nearly as important.
It is hard to imagine the effect that a well timed cyber attack, in combination with perhaps 40 cities under attack by two man teams operating along the lines of the DC mobile snipers in the days immediately after 9/11.
Hard to realize the damage that could be caused by less than 100 bad guys and say $100Million to hire a botnet for a weekend. That’s even more to be concerned about than $7 a gallon gasoline.
Funny, I’ve never heard this in any of the debates. Takes too long to tell the story.
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