Team, What happen to Malaysia Today (MT) website get my interest to know more about handling this kind of attacks and what can be by us system administrator and developers in protecting our websites. Its can happen to any website.
Im against DDOS that can cripple any websites including government websites, business and ordinary people. DDOS also shows our computer users still not updating their operating system to protect from trojan or DDOS bot. Lack of awareness and knowledge I believe. Im looking into this DDOS attack of MT in big picture.... If they can attack MT they also can attack our Internet infra and cripple our country network. Our banking systems now in question, can they protect themself? More info for those who want to know about protecting from DDOS http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Denial_of_Service or google for OWASP DDOS At this blog post I also discuss about ways of protecting, may be its could work ... http://uppercaise.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/access-to-malaysia-today/ For example the use of CoralCDN network http://www.coralcdn.org/ CoralCDN service can be use to access non login websites (due to its proxy like) example to access PMO website http://www.pmo.gov.my.nyud.net/ more articles about Content Distribution Network (CDN) http://www.reaper-x.com/2009/10/02/how-to-use-coralcdn-to-save-your-bandwidth-problem-server-resources/ http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2010/01/25/how-to-use-coralcdn-on-demand-to-keep-your-site-available.aspx or using Squid and Nginx http://serverfault.com/questions/30705/how-to-set-up-nginx-as-a-caching-reverse-proxy http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ReverseProxy Im also looking into solution like IPF in FreeBSD and Iptables drop .... This email post to OSDC.my Mailing List http://groups.google.com.my/group/osdcmy-list OWASP Malaysia Mailing List https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-Malaysia _______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
