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Hackers, or incompetence? #
Posted Tuesday 14th July 2009 15:09 GMT
Personally, I wouldn't call a DDoS, hacking. In a traditional sense would be taking control of a remote computer by Backdoor Trojanal activity. A DDoS is usually from a Bot Network, which is created by becoming infected, usually by a trojan, and usually from iRC ports and servers.
Eircom should be in a position to block or fend off a DDoS attack, as control of the packets is something better handled at network, rather than by a firewall, and I know I've oversimplified it, however an ISP should have the abillity and bandwith to handle a doubling of traffic with ease.
And, normal service being resumed, sounds more like a drop off in the DDoS, rather than something that Eircom itself did.
Perhaps, it is time that Eircom reviewed it's own policies and inadequacies in handling what was by their own words, merely a doubling of traffic, hardly SYN flooding at it's optimum.
N.Korea, switching targets maybe, bored with Yanks, wanting a challenge, picked on possibily,the most obsidious world power after maybe, Fiji, or Papua New Guinea.
