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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: 4, Insightful) by kadal on Tuesday June 02 2015, @05:37PM
I feel like this is a law and order problem. Criminals use the highways but it's the police that catch them not the department that maintains the highway.
At least notify the internet authority in the country before taking it out. That said if this was some Chinese military unit, then I'm not sure what the appropriate response is