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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been getting more polished, in what, who, and how they target their victims. Threatpost has an article looking at some of the changes over the recent years regarding new techniques, new targets, and a new class of attackers.
Several new themes are emerging in the 2018 distributed denial of service (DDoS) threat landscape, including a shift in tactics to reach new heights in volumetric campaigns, attacks that rely on a sheer wall of large amounts of packet traffic to overwhelm the capacity of a website and take it town.
However, while these traditional, opportunistic brute-force DDoS attacks remain a menace has emerged. These DDoS threats are more sophisticated and micro-targeted attacks. They take aim at, say, a specific application rather than a whole website. These type DDoS attacks are a rapidly growing threat, as are “low and slow” stealthier offensives. At the same time, bot herders are working on expanding their largely IoT-based botnet creations, by any means possible, often to accommodate demand from the DDoS-as-a-service offerings that have created a flood of new participants in the DDoS scene. Those new entrants are all competing for attack resources, creating a demand that criminals are all too happy to fulfill.
[...] One of the most notable evolutions in the DDoS landscape is the growth in the peak size of volumetric attacks. Attackers continue to use reflection/amplification techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in DNS, NTP, SSDP, CLDAP, Chargen and other protocols to maximize the scale of their attacks. Notably however, in February the world saw a 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack against GitHub—setting a record for volume (it was twice the size of the previous largest attack on record) and demonstrating that new amplification techniques can give unprecedented power to cybercriminals. Just five days later, an even larger attack launched, reaching 1.7 Tbps. These showed that DDoS attackers are more than able to keep up with the growing size of bandwidth pipes being used by businesses.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @06:24PM (1 child)
From my understanding the yellow eyes only occur during times that the Sith are closest to the dark side. I believe this is mentioned in the commentary on either the DVD release or the blu rays.
If you'll notice, when Anakin attacks the Jedi temple, his eyes were normal. Plapatine told him after the attack on the temple he would be strong enough to feel the full power of the dark side.
You'll also notice that his eyes go yellow after slaughtering all the seperatists, which would be a huge spike in the use of the Dark side.
They go back to normal when Padme arrives. They are also normal while fighting Obi Wan. His eyes go yellow as his rage and hate fill him when Obi deals what should have been a death stroke, and (my opinion here) he hates Obi Wan even more for letting him suffer.
You'll notice in ROTJ, His eyes are back to his normal colors as well.
As for Dooku, He was a Sith Lord, but I honestly think he was a Sith Lord trying to do right. More of a Grey Sith Lord than a true Dark Lord. He's never really put into a situation where he would have to call upon the full power of the Dark Side. You'll notice even during his duel with Yoda, he appears to duel only to find a way out and run. Same with His Duels with Anakin and Obi Wan.
Now for the Emperor, There is no doubt he is under the full influence of the Dark Side at all times. Once he made his "Change" into his true form, his eyes remain Yellow all the time, but when he was Senator Palpatine, he avoided using the Dark Side any more than he had so that he could remain in hiding.
Hope this helps!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @07:52PM
I think I get it. These two posts are meta. You're DDoSing us with words.