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Earlier this month, Brett Wentworth took Level 3 Communications Inc. into territory that most rivals have been reluctant to enter. The director of global security at the largest carrier of Internet traffic cut off data from reaching a group of servers in China that his company believed was involved in an active hacking attack.
The Broomfield, Colo., company handles roughly 40% of internet traffic and is taking an aggressive—and some say risky approach—to battling criminal activity. Risky because hackers often hijack legitimate machines to do their dirty work, raising the risk of collateral damage by sidelining a business using the same group of servers. Such tactics also run against a widely held belief that large carriers should be facilitating traffic, not halting it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:58PM
considering that most user are clueless and that has lead to a market share of 89% of a certain un-named company everybody with half a clue has to suffer because a traffic agnostic player is now shoved into the take-sides police role.
because of one company! everybody has to suffer a future of "big-brother is watching you".
*shesh*
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:06PM
In OpenBSD there's even a firewall switch to identify TCP traffic from Microsoft computers. So one could make use of it and for every Microsoft TCP packet block that IP for hours until they upgrade? ;^)