David Kennedy CISSP wrote:
The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the load and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw an "Internet performance issue" this morning ...
Here's a link to a Reuter's article with official quotes from Keynote Systems: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040615/tech_internet_1.html Keynote saw availability of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google drop to near-zero. I have no clue where David got the information that:
They have tracked the attacker back to person that is at the Akamai Technologies ISP. No other information has been given to us at this time.
That tidbit didn't come from Keynote. Can you provide a link, David? -DaveU