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posted by takyon on Friday September 23 2016, @09:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the temporary-hiccup dept.

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


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Fnord666 on Saturday September 24 2016, @03:37PM

    by Fnord666 (652) on Saturday September 24 2016, @03:37PM (#405956) Homepage

    It's hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to take you on for free then that's pretty effective censorship," Krebs told Ars on Friday. "I've had a couple of big companies offer and then think better of offering to help me. That's been frustrating.

    FTFY. The key point is that Krebs' site draws a lot of fire and the cost to have a mitigation strategy in place that can handle it is high. Krebs can't afford it but had been getting coverage for free. I'm fairly certain there are a number of companies that would take him on as a client if he were willing to pay the going rate.

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