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Akamai kicked journalist Brian Krebs' site off its servers after he was hit by a 'record' cyberattack is how Business Insider describes the ongoing DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) against Brian Krebs (currently offline; google cache). This is notable as Akamai was able to mitigate the effect of the record scale attack but has decided to end their service relationship with Krebs. Victory has currently been handed to the attackers: if the goal is to get Krebs' website off the Internet it has succeeded regardless of the mechanism. Despite being deleted off the Internet Krebs does not fault Akamai.
The really Interesting question is how long will it take for Krebs to return to operational status? Is there anyone else that will be willing to donate their mitigation services so Krebs can go back online? Is there any possible way he could afford to pay normal prices for mitigation services that could handle 600 gigabits per second of flooding? Exactly who do you have to piss off, how sophisticated do they need to be, and how long can they afford the risk involved with carrying out the attack? Free Speech for the Internet is going to be defined by how this plays out.
takyon: These cybercriminals are just going to get Krebs more attention and appearances in the mass media. Krebs expects his site to be back up later today. Also, it is important to note that Akamai/Prolexic provided Krebs free service.
Previously: Brian Krebs DDoSed After Exposing vDos Operators; Israeli Authorities Hit Back With Arrests
Brian Krebs' Blog Hit by 665 Gbps DDoS Attack
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @09:49PM
slow unreliable, EXCITING
Slow and unreliable excites you too? Oh baby, baby. Do I have an iptables ruleset for you. Such throttling. So many resets.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday September 23 2016, @09:57PM
Stable and predictable is boring.
The few times I installed Windows98, the "most exciting OS yet!" slide started to take on a whole new meaning.
TL;Dr: You don't want your critical infrastructure to be "exciting".
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @10:03PM
You don't want your critical infrastructure to be "exciting".
Yes you do, and that's why you should use Tor, because you never know when your pubic library is going to get busted for kiddie porn!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2016, @01:13AM
> pubic library
somehow I am not surprised it contains porn. Freudian or intentional?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @09:59PM
I think its more about when and where to find stuff and how back in the day hunting down information was more difficult and resources could go on and offline. Everyone prefers 100% uptime, but there is some excitement with ephemeral resources. If impromptu warehouse/forest parties were always set up they wouldn't be nearly as fun and exciting.