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Submission + - The College Student—and His Cat Meme—Who Hunted the World's Biggest (wsj.com)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: For the first time, the wild behind the scenes story of the discovery and takedown of the world's largest (and most destructive botnet) last month. At times, the Kimwolf and related botnets included more than a million compromised home android and photo frames — enough DDoS firepower bandwidth to disrupt US and global internet traffic

Submission + - Hyperscale DDoS over Last Year and DOJ Takedown (linkedin.com)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: US Department of Justice announced major takedown of world's largest botnet last night — capable of generating hundreds of Tbps of DDoS traffic from millions of residential android devices (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/authorities-disrupt-worlds-largest-iot-ddos-botnets-responsible-record-breaking-attacks). Security vendors now sharing more information, including dramatic graph of DDoS activity before and after

Submission + - Newly discovered ResHydra botnet can disrupt all US internet (wsj.com)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: WSJ reports today that new botnet (reshydra) can generate 100+ Tbps plus attacks (10x size of recent largest ever Cloudflare attack!) and disrupt all internet traffic to US or other countries. Reshydra use tens of millions of compromised android fire sticks in homes and security web cameras in businesses around the world.

Submission + - Google Now 25% of the Internet (wired.com)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: Wired Magazine claims today that Google is 25% of the Internet with a mostly unreported (and rapidly expanding), massive deployment of edge caching servers in almost every Internet provider around the world. Whether users are directly using a Google service (i.e. search, YouTube) or the devices are automatically sending data (e.g. Google Analytics, updates), the majority of end devices around the world will now send traffic to Google server during the course of an average day. It looks like Wired based their story on a report from cloud analytics and network management company DeepField at http://www.deepfield.net/2013/07/google-sets-new-internet-record.

Submission + - Cyber Monday and Amazon's Frightening Online Dominance (gigaom.com)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: A report out this morning pegs Amazon with a whopping 14% share of all daily Internet users — almost twice the nearest competitor (Ebay). And this number does not include all shopping sites absorbed by the growing Amazon empire.

The original report has interesting graphics comparing Amazon to other retailers like BestBuy.
Cloud

Submission + - Amazon's Cloud Now 1% of Interet (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Wired story claims Amazon's cloud now hosts enough companies and traffic to generate 1% of all Internet traffic (and visits from 1/3 of daily Internet users). An amazing number if its true. And a little scary for one company to host this much cloud infrastructure.
Censorship

Submission + - Middle East Internet Scorecard (monkey.org)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: With the escalating violence and frequent reports of phone and Internet blockages across the Middle East and North Africa, its getting hard to keep track of what is happening where. Arbor released a new report and graphic scorecard of Internet censorship in the region.
Security

Submission + - Shocker - Press Make Up China Internet Hijack (arbornetworks.com)

Submitted by sturgeon
sturgeon writes: Yesterday, Slashdot and most of the world's major media outlets reported on China's April 2010 hijack of "15% of Internet traffic," including sensitive US government and defense sites. The alarm came following a US Government report on China / US economic and security relations released on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, no one much bother with fact checking or actually reading the report. The actual study never makes any estimate of Internet traffic diverted during the hijack — it only cites a blog post to suggest large volumes of traffic were involved. And curiously, the cited blog at the heart of the report never mentions traffic at all — only routes. You have to go to an interview with a third-party security researcher in a minor trade magazine to first come up with the 15% number (and this article never explains where the number came from).

In an amazing review of real data and actual facts, Arbor Nework's Craig Labovitz has a blog post looking at the traffic volumes involved in the incident (only a couple of Gigabits per second or a "statistically insignificant" percentage of Internet traffic).

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