The evolution of distributed attacks on the Internet: 1994 to the present
summary
A historical survey of distributed attacks on the Internet from 1994 to the present, tracing major technical and public milestones such as Panix, Sony, XboxLive/PSN, the Mirai botnet, and the memcached amplification incidents. The talk examines DDoS methods, bot activity, and how attack techniques evolved over time.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00DDoS evolution overview
- 3:54Early attacks and sifud
- 7:04Phoenix DDoS attacks
- 9:55Mafia Boy and dot-coms
- 11:20Russian DDoS in 2011
- 13:51DNS amplification attacks
- 16:00Botnets and activism
- 18:29Sony attack aftermath
- 21:43Russian DDoS 2011
- 23:49Cyberbunkers and Cloudflare
- 25:34DDoS protection evolution
- 28:01IoT device attacks
- 29:24Mirai and terabit attacks
- 31:29DDoS-as-a-service
- 32:32Recent attack types
- 33:35Memcached amplification
- 35:22TCP amplification
- 37:10MikroTik attacks
- 39:20HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 flaws
- 41:09DDoS future outlook
- 42:15Investing in protection
- 43:19What to do during attack
- 43:44Encryption and protection
- 45:10New protection tech
- 46:35Protection case studies
- 47:39Public blockchain risks
- 48:46Exit scam risks
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