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[ NNSquad ] DDoS attacks spread to vulnerable IPv6 Internet
This is supposed to be, like, uh, a surprise? --Lauren-- ------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:05:23 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] DDoS attacks spread to vulnerable IPv6 Internet Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@listbox.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com> Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:28 AM Subject: [Dewayne-Net] DDoS attacks spread to vulnerable IPv6 Internet To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com> DDoS attacks spread to vulnerable IPv6 Internet by Stephen Shankland February 15, 2012 < http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57378307-264/ddos-attacks-spread-to-vulnerable-ipv6-internet/ > The next-gen Internet, still immature, is now a pathway for Net attacks, a study finds. Also, ideology has become the primary reason for DDoS attacks. The idyllic byways of the next-generation IPv6 Internet now suffer an affliction previously limited to the mainstream IPv4 Internet: distributed denial-of-service attacks. And worse, the still-immature IPv6 network is being caught with its pants down when it comes to repelling the DDoS attacks. That's the conclusion of Arbor Networks' latest annual study on the Internet's operational security, released today. "This is a significant milestone in the arms race between attackers and defenders," Arbor Networks said. "We believe that the scope and prevalence of IPv6 DDoS attacks will gradually increase over time as IPv6 is more widely deployed." For the moment, the volume is still relatively small--only 4 percent of survey respondents reported seeing IPv6 DDoS attacks--but that's a worrisome harbinger. DDoS attacks use a swarm of computers to swamp a target machine on the Internet with traffic so it's unusable. Such attacks sometimes are launched from botnets of compromised computers for criminal reasons--but now the top cause is ideology such as that evident in Anonymous' coordinated protest attacks. DDoS attacks send traffic to a particular Internet address, and today the vast majority of those addresses are handled by Internet Protocol version 4, or IPv4. IPv6, which vastly increases the number of possible addresses to deal with the fact that IPv4 is running out of them, is gradually becoming a reality as those with servers and network gear invest in the new network. [snip] Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad