On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
That's right M.Fortaine .. and your model does not, as yet, appear to address what you term as EDoS and what the general security community calls "DDoS"
eh.. I guess I'm splitting hairs. the goal of 100k bots sending 1 query per second to a service that you know can only sustain 50k queries/second is.. not to economically Dos someone, it's to obliterate their service infrastructure. Sure, you could ALSO target something hosted (for instance) at Amazon-AWS and increase costs by making lots and lots and lots of queries, but that wasn't the point of what Deepak wrote, nor what i corrected. -chris
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Guillaume FORTAINE <gfortaine@live.com> wrote:
From my point of view, it seems similar to the EDoS concept :
http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?s=EDos
"EDoS attacks, however, are death by a thousand cuts. EDoS can also utilize distributed attack sources as well as single entities, but works by making legitimate web requests at volumes that may appear to be “normal” but are done so to drive compute, network, and storage utility billings in a cloud model abnormally high."
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)