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Microsoft Azure customer hit by largest 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack:
A Microsoft Azure cloud computing customer in Asia was a victim of a massive 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) in November 2021, the software and technology giant Microsoft revealed on January 25, 2022.
The DDoS attack lasted approximately 15 minutes and included a botnet of more than 10,000 compromised IoT (Internet of Things) devices from countries across the globe. These included Iran, India, China, Russia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and the United States.
Attack vectors were UDP reflection on port 80 using Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol (NTP) comprising one single peak.
Alethea Toh Product Manager, Azure Networking
Microsoft's report further disclosed that there has been a surge in DDoS attacks with the United States and India being prime targets. The company noted that Hong Kong has also become a popular hotspot for attackers however there has been a decrease in DDoS activity in Europe.
[...] A DDoS attack involves sending a huge amount of illegal traffic from compromised machines to the intended target and therefore disrupting them completely. The system can crash and lead to a massive loss of data, particularly, in the case of companies that host a significant amount of information regarding their clients and customers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 29 2022, @02:50PM (7 children)
Anyone want to run the numbers on what the Carbon output is on an attack like this?
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 29 2022, @03:37PM
If it takes down Microsoft, it's worth every megaton.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday January 29 2022, @04:28PM (5 children)
Carbon Credits is communism packaged in a way that modern cattle find emotionally pleasing. So, the carbon cost necessarily depends 100% on the ideology and the intentions of the attacker. If it's in the name of progressivism and communism, it is 0: i.e. a progressive will say it is 100% worth it and no cost is too great.
Carbon Credits are nothing more than a top-down way to direct an economy based on ideology and politics, not on the best, most practical, most efficient way to allocate scarce resources among everyone.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mcgrew on Saturday January 29 2022, @06:02PM (2 children)
Carbon credits aren't about "communism packaged in a way that modern cattle find emotionally pleasing", it's a way to get the people who are putting the most carbon in the air to put less in. Carbon is warming the planet and causing climate change. How can anybody on S/N be so ignorant? Are you lost, little one?
Carbon credits are like cigarette taxes: They want you to stop smoking, and they (and I) want us to stop burning fossil fuels. Some of us aren't money worshiping assholes and actually care what kind of a hell hole we leave behind after we die.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 1, Troll) by Username on Saturday January 29 2022, @06:19PM (1 child)
Says the dude using a device made with hydrocarbons, sending signals over wires that are coated with hydrocarbons, and breathing out CO2. Why do you hate the environment? Shouldn't you be in a commun somewhere, weaving clothes out of hemp?
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 29 2022, @11:10PM
Nothing is perfect so we shouldn't do anything.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 29 2022, @06:03PM
"Russia did it."
-- Every China-owned Jewish lawmaker profiting from Uyghur slave labor
(Score: 1, Informative) by shrewdsheep on Saturday January 29 2022, @06:11PM
Quite to the contrary: it is about giving a price to a good that was not priced before. This is precisely the (neo-)liberal approach to achieve "the best, most practical, most efficient way to allocate scarce resources among everyone".
The point of contention might be how high the price should be.