posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:27 AM
by
demiliani
Remedy to Hacker's attacks: another attacks !?
I've just read this strange notice on ZDNet: A security company called Symbiot is about to launch a product that can help companies fight back during a DDoS or hacker attack by launching their own counter offensive.
I'm really surprised about this notice... is it legal? I'm not sure about this... this could be the beginning of a war.
Imagine if two different companies had an automatic DDoS protection system like this and someone spoofed their DDoS to attack Company A and made it look like it was coming from Company B? Terrible... Company A's auto-attack would then attack Company B, which would, in turn, attack Company A. Horror...
Moreover, normally a DDoS attack is launched from compromised machines and normally the machine's owner has no idea what's going on and he could be attacked... wonderful!
I think that someone in Symbiot must review the project... my personal opinion is that if you have the network infrastructure to try and launch a DDOS attack, then you probably have the ability to survive and/or defend from DDOS attacks without resorting to insanity like this. Think about this...