handling ddos attacks

Fri May 21 19:36:59 UTC 2004

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:19:46 -0000, Richard Cox <richard at mandarin.com>  said:
> While there are obvious difficulties with Russian (and neighbouring
> country) ISPs, for the rest of Europe any such misconduct gets fast
> action - as witness the speed with which Law Enforcement moved over
> the Sasser worm - the author of which is already in custody.

*alledged* author.

I mention this mostly because there's been at one case where they've arrested
somebody for creating a minor tweaked variant, and gotten the press pointed at
that rather than the fact that they never did (to my knowledge) find the guy
who did the bulk of the work....

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 226 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20040521/86e89747/attachment.sig>