[olug] DoDNS extortion

[Eric Lusk]

more likely it crosses internation lines.
There has been quite a bit of extortion going on with
web sites, usually you get an email from some
organization that basically specializes in
cyber-terrorism.
I would suppose that the best defense is offsite
servers to run for just such an occasion.  It is
interesting that they've gone with DoDNS instead of
the typical DoS attack.  But then again, companies are
learning how to deal with DoS, so this is probably
just the logical progression for such groups.
--- Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:

> A friend of mine just had her company attacked by a
> Denial of DNS 
> (DoDNS).  Apparently the attackers emailed the
> bosses demanding $10,000 
> or they would launch this DoDNS for the next month. 
> If they paid the 
> money they would "protect" them for a year.  Is this
> straight out of the 
> movies?
> 
> Has anybody else had this issue?
> 
> What are the best ways or other ways to protect
> yourself against this 
> type of attack?
> Multiple DNS servers on different connections is one
> thing I was 
> thinking of.  Manually blacklisting the IP addresses
> at the route seems 
> like a slow and painful way of doing this.
> 
> I assume this is a crime that probably should be
> reported to the FBI 
> because it almost certainly crosses state lines. 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Later
> Eric Penne
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