Comments on: DDoS Attacks on Web Hosts Continue

By: Christopher Prevost

Christopher Prevost — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:14:31 +0000

Security is not something that is 100% guaranteed ever. I imagine low cost providers have some degree of protection that their budget can afford, however I recall an ad in a futureshop flyer for a sonicwall hardware-style firewall. Their claim was “100% unhackable” and the folks from Dept of Nat’l Defence here in Canada in the college program I was in just laughed at it. So the moral of this story… no one person/company/hosting site is 100% immune to attacks. I mean how can you deal with sheer volume of requests? Quite simply, you can’t – so you crash and burn.

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:45:21 +0000

Seems that another one can be added to your list. Yesterday, the larger part of the DNS servers of http://www.register.com and their own website has been down. So far, I haven’t find any news items about it (my site was not found for a short while, register.com was down for 6 hours or more, others have had larger interruptions), but here’s a few twitters that reported it: http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=2788621361&q=register.com

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By: Faisal Khan

Faisal Khan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:23:08 +0000

I just don’t think its fair to say what you have just cited. ThePlanet and others – have a lot of excellent security gear (CiscoGuard, Arbor, etc.), but when you’re faced with a massive DDoS (sizes are typically above 5-10Gbps easily, it is not as simple as ‘null-routing’ an IP address. FireHost.com – I have no idea about their capacity, but large levels DDoS even bring Tier 1 carrier to their knees. So one can quite confidently argue, that no one provider can stop it all. It take lots of 10G circuits, lot of very expensive DPI devices and mitigation devices to thwart and filter DDoS attacks.

When you’re renting out a camp site on the beach, nothing much you can do when a tsunami hits……..

By: Scott S.

Scott S. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:14:38 +0000

I think it is very sad when hosting company’s tout their low-cost hosting and never tell their clients of the security risks. Worse, is when they do nothing to prevent these attacks. FireHost.com filters traffic at the HTTP and network level… that’s just the beginning of their very real, very effective security.