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- -- "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
>-- Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
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>>In the last days news and government web sites in Georgia suffered DDoS
>>attacks. While these attacks seem to affect the Georgian Internet, it is
>>still there.
In the talk, among other things such as the DNA and scripting languages,
medical doctors and reverse engineers... was about cybernetic hacking.
I gave some predictions, some for 2 years, others 40 years. Some again were
pure science fiction. I was wrong on the 2 years, it's here.
Today, this came up in the news (hat tip to Paul Ferguson on the funsec mailing
list):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/business/12heart-web.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
" The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security
researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless
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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
http://rbnexploit.blogspot.com/2008/08/rbn-georgia-cyberwarfare-2-sat-16-00.html
Also, Renesys has been following the situation and provides with some data:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/08/georgia_clings_to_the_net.shtml
(Thanks to Paul Ferguson for the URLs)
DDoS attacks harm the Internet itself rather than just this or that web site,
so soon this may require some of us in the Internet security operations
community getting involved in mitigating the attacks, if they don't just drop
on their own.
