Taking on a multi-billion-dollar corporation like Sony requires more sophisticated methods, though. David Larson, CTO of the cybersecurity firm Corero Network Security, said he suspects that this PSN attack was the result of some sort of combination of DDoS tools that may have included botnets—collections of computer servers designed to connect and perform a unified action. Anyone can rent a botnet, Larson said—and combining botnets and Ion Cannon-like flooding programs can cause a lot of devastation across the web."http://kotaku.com/how-ddos-attacks-work-and-why-theyre-so-hard-to-stop-1676445620
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
How DDOS Attacks Work & Why They're Hard to Prevent
"For example: the High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC), a free piece of software that allows anyone to flood a website with overwhelming amounts of dummy traffic created by custom scripts. Anyone with a computer can download this program, type in the URL of a website, and watch the HOIC generate fake user after fake user in hopes of overloading that site's servers and bringing it down. And when multiple people use the HOIC at once on the same target, the damage can grow exponentially higher.
Taking on a multi-billion-dollar corporation like Sony requires more sophisticated methods, though. David Larson, CTO of the cybersecurity firm Corero Network Security, said he suspects that this PSN attack was the result of some sort of combination of DDoS tools that may have included botnets—collections of computer servers designed to connect and perform a unified action. Anyone can rent a botnet, Larson said—and combining botnets and Ion Cannon-like flooding programs can cause a lot of devastation across the web."http://kotaku.com/how-ddos-attacks-work-and-why-theyre-so-hard-to-stop-1676445620
Taking on a multi-billion-dollar corporation like Sony requires more sophisticated methods, though. David Larson, CTO of the cybersecurity firm Corero Network Security, said he suspects that this PSN attack was the result of some sort of combination of DDoS tools that may have included botnets—collections of computer servers designed to connect and perform a unified action. Anyone can rent a botnet, Larson said—and combining botnets and Ion Cannon-like flooding programs can cause a lot of devastation across the web."http://kotaku.com/how-ddos-attacks-work-and-why-theyre-so-hard-to-stop-1676445620
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