Security researcher and blogger Bruce Schneier has a new essay up, arguing that there’s a single body out there carrying out a systematic attempt to test the defenses of the internet’s fundamental infrastructure, presumably with the intention of one day breaking those defenses. While the sources for the article are anonymous, they hardly need naming since Schneier makes it clear that his research has collected insight from virtually all major internet companies, from large service providers like AT&T all the way to organizing bodies like Verisign or potentially even ICANN itself. Somebody is searching for weaknesses in the sorts of places that many assume you’d only attack for one reason: crashing all or a large portion of the internet.
 
The basic narrative is this: Schneier has been hearing sustained, widespread reports from fundamentally important internet companies that they are experiencing a marked uptick in certain kinds of attacks, in particular Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These have been not only getting stronger, longer lasting, and more diverse, but they’ve been moving in seemingly systematic, investigatory ways. Schneier describes a scenario in which attackers sent predictable probing attacks against successively higher levels of security until it had tested everything, apparently being exhaustive in their search for failure points.

loveha
Someone should tell the author "Tell us something we don't know."
 
http://map.norsecorp.com/#/

loveha
Someone should tell the author "Tell us something we don't know."
 
http://map.norsecorp.com/#/

Clickalot
Microsoft keeps targeting a town in New York over and over, with a population of like 3,000? Like what the hell.