Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!

all that maybe true but with the way economy is around the world it may
just be network security companies doing something funny to scare the banks
and the other organizations into buying their ddos/firewall/security tools
and/or consulting services.

i know banks should have all that infrastructure in place but more doesn't
hurt and when did they deploy that, 5 years ago? its time to pony up.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Joe Sanchez <marco207p_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I know that there are reports of Iran running a squad of hackers right
> now, because of the Stuxnet virus that brought their Atomic Weapons
> program to a stand still, but with all major countries now using the
> internet as their cyber warfare playground what can we do. I'd personally
> like to blackhole some prefix's to fix a lot of this, but with a global
> economy what can we do. What a sad state indeed.
>
> JS
>
> On 9/27/12 9:52 PM, "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan_at_ine.com> wrote:
>
> >It's kind of a sad state of affairs as it stands now. Realistically how
> >can you mitigate large scale DDoS? At the end of the day it's scary how
> >fragile the network really is.
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> >Joe Sanchez
> >Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:25 PM
> >To: Joseph L. Brunner
> >Cc: David Prall; marc abel; marc edwards; Cisco certification
> >Subject: Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
> >
> >The problems are more than likely the result of the continuous DDOS
> >attacks by people wanting to jump on the Anonymous bangwagon and be a
> >script-kiddie for the day. Those that have been helping Anonymous "go
> >check your bank accounts" as there is a Trojan in the tool your using for
> >the DDOS attacks.
> >We have been contacting all of our bank customers that are on the
> >Anonymous attack list and having them consider the DDOS mitigation
> >companies that we partner with, some refuse to move yet but we are
> >working with them to start the paperwork, so when it happens we can move
> >their internet traffic through the proper paths. For the last few months
> >Anonymous has had a working list of companies that they are targeting and
> >have attacked most US banks on that list. The internet is a free for all
> >right now. We have a few Tunnels go down on occassion, but we would
> >never loose the backbone.
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Joseph L. Brunner
> ><joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Definitely XO's fault.. they have been in and out of bankruptcy for
> >> years now...
> >>
> >> Level3 is rock solid... I'm on the same edge router as salesforce.com.
> >> we both use Level3 for a reason :)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> >> Of David Prall
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:16 PM
> >> To: 'marc abel'; 'marc edwards'
> >> Cc: 'Cisco certification'
> >> Subject: RE: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
> >>
> >> Could always subscribe to the outages mailing list. Archives show an
> >> L3->XO issue.
> >>
> >> https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-September/thread.html
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> >> Of marc abel
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:32 PM
> >> To: marc edwards
> >> Cc: Cisco certification
> >> Subject: Re: WTF happened to the Internet????!!!!
> >>
> >> I noticed some weirdness earlier. Is there a site or something that
> >> tracks these type outages?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM, marc edwards <renorider_at_gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I got report of 2 tier 1 failures. XO and level 3
> >> >
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