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From: STRUCTURE EVENTS Newsletter

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KREBSONSECURITY HIT WITH RECORD DDOS

Brian Krebs is one of the most hard-working and influential journalists in 
the field of information security, which means he has made a few enemies 
over the years. Krebs' site was hit this week by what Akamai called the 
largest DDoS attack it had ever seen, according to a blog post from Krebs. 
He later tweeted that Akamai was forced to take his site offline.
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> And the bad guys win; that's exactly what they were trying to achieve. How
> unfortunate.

It's time we start to defend our Internet borders similar to how we defend 
our actual borders. After helping to build this mess I'm convinced it's 
time to make the Internet a much smaller place. Still allowing anyone 
access, but for most services your worldview would be much smaller than it 
is today. If a distributed network such as Akamai can't offer any defense 
against this sort of attack, no one can. Think about it. This attack 
caused so much traffic on the Akamai network that it affected other 
customers. The only way they could defend their network was to remove the 
endpoint being attacked. It's time to reduce the attack surface we make 
available to the bad guys.

Kevin