Serangan DDoS terbesar dalam sejarah !

Well, berita ni aku pickup dari BBC News, tapi aku dah truncated kasi pendek.


Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'


- Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks.

- ..Spamhaus blocked servers maintained by Cyberbunker, a Dutch web host that states it will host anything with the exception of child pornography or terrorism-related material.

- Spamhaus has alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with "criminal gangs" from Eastern Europe and Russia, is behind the attack.

- The attackers have used a tactic known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which floods the intended target with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to render it unreachable.

- "If you aimed this at Downing Street they would be down instantly," he said. "They would be completely off the internet." He added: "These attacks are peaking at 300 Gbps (gigabits per second)."Normally when there are attacks against major banks, we're talking about 50 Gbps"

- "The largest DDoS attack that we have witnessed prior to this was in 2010, which was 100 Gbps. Obviously the jump from 100 to 300 is pretty massive," said Dan Holden, the company's director of security research.

Source : BBC

Komen aku : Kalau DDoS melibatkan gang dari East Europe ngan Russia memang tak heran bila diorang boleh pull attack sebesar ni. 300 Gbps is such a real sweet mofo speed. Macam mana korang bleh gain speed sampai 300 Gbps tu memang menakjubkan la. 

Kat Malaysia ni nak dapat 100Mbps stable pun batuk - batuk lagi. Dari segi jenayahnya, memang men'DDoS' mana - mana pihak atas apa alasan sekali pun memang salah. Sebab niat lain takde mistilah sabotaj. Tapi dari segi expertise aku salute kat diorang ni sebab diorang boleh research, coordinate, dan execute plan diorang sampai bikin ni mission buat orang sakit jiwa. 

Agak - agaknya la, kalau Anonymous buat lawak lagi macam hari tu, pegi hantam semua website Gomen, boleh tak kita bertahan macam ni ? Kalau melibatkan CyberSecurity, aku rasa boleh kot. Tapi kalau nak mengharapkan Pegawai IT / Administrator yang keje ngan kerajaan, aku rasa kena tinggal dalam 10 - 12 tiang. Maklum, penjawat awam kita ramai yang malas dan tak progresif. 

Pengalaman aku sendiri bercampur ngan "budak IT" pejabat kerajaan ni memberi gambaran tentang mentaliti diorang. Jadi Network Administrator di pejabat gomen bukanlah disebabkan oleh passion atau pride, ianya lebih ke arah gaji + perks keje kerajaan je. Jarang aku jumpe administrator yang betul - betul bersemangat jaga server jabatan.

Apa pun, pada aku Malaysia ni masih lagi jauh di belakang berbanding negara - negara maju. Bukan setakat dari infrastruktur je, tapi jugak dari segi kematangan dan mentaliti. Berharaplah yang perubahan akan berlaku. Berharaplah ada syarikat yang nak challenge TM untuk jadi ISP ( in my dreams kot..)