I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a similar fashion? Mark Pace
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0500, Mark Pace <pace@jolokianetworks.com> wrote:
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a similar fashion?
Mark Pace
Just got the same phone call from "A large company" and it was a sales call. They are "offering DDoS mitigation services" I'll pass :) -=Tom Donnelly -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Hehe.. yeah, no thanks - I'll do it myself with our existing DDOS mitigation. ;) Paul -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Donnelly [mailto:tad1214@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:57 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat? On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0500, Mark Pace <pace@jolokianetworks.com> wrote:
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a similar fashion?
Mark Pace
Just got the same phone call from "A large company" and it was a sales call. They are "offering DDoS mitigation services" I'll pass :) -=Tom Donnelly -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
On 06/07/2011 01:42 PM, Mark Pace wrote:
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment.
It wasn't Radware, was it? http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-ipv6-security.html If not, it would seem that there's no shortage of IPv6 FUD this week. Jima
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:01:59 -0500, Jima <nanog@jima.tk> wrote:
On 06/07/2011 01:42 PM, Mark Pace wrote:
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment.
It wasn't Radware, was it?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-ipv6-security.html
If not, it would seem that there's no shortage of IPv6 FUD this week.
Jima
I can confirm it was not Radware. -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
In a message written on Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:42:40AM -0700, Mark Pace wrote:
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in
I thought the goal was to get everyone to try out IPv6. Doesn't that include the miscreants? :) -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:18:11 BST, Tim Chown said:
On 7 Jun 2011, at 20:04, Leo Bicknell wrote:
I thought the goal was to get everyone to try out IPv6. Doesn't that include the miscreants? :)
Well, if I was evil I'd be looking for IPv6 back doors tomorrow...
No, that's when everybody will be looking closely for the smallest sign of wonkyness. What the *truly* evil will do is wait till Thursday for all the sites that forgot to turn IPv6 off. Or you got whacked last night and don't know it yet. ;)
We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day participants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically targeted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's merely a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage. The caller claimed to represent Verisign (though we took no steps to verify that claim). If anyone from Verisign is on the list, you may want to look into this, especially if this is actually coming from one of your employees. Nathan
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Pace [mailto:pace@jolokianetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:43 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a similar fashion?
Mark Pace
I can confirm, it was indeed Verisign who emailed me with the same message. I am slightly disappointed by this course of action, needless to say I am not surprised, because this kind of behavior is expected from sales people. I had a bit more respect for them, however... -ck On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>wrote:
We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day participants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically targeted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's merely a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage.
The caller claimed to represent Verisign (though we took no steps to verify that claim). If anyone from Verisign is on the list, you may want to look into this, especially if this is actually coming from one of your employees.
Nathan
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Pace [mailto:pace@jolokianetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:43 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter" about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a similar fashion?
Mark Pace
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