DDoS Flash Mobs

By Paul Kedrosky · March 30, 2005 · ·

Interesting paper being presented at the NSDI ’05 conference in Boston in May. The metaphor of some species of DDoS as flash crowds is a nice one. Botz4sale indeed.

Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds
Srikanth Kandula and Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Matthias Jacob, Princeton University; Arthur Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Akamai

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