Anonymous DoS attacks thwarted with Aikido hip throw In early December, researchers from security firm Radware were dispatched to repel attacks against a company being targeted by the Anonymous hacking collective and could only be described as fierce and potentially devastating. With junk traffic hitting peaks of 14 Gbps and coming from botnets, Unix machines with massive amounts …
Probably some LARPer an overimaginative imagination with NFI what a koshi nage is. Probably likely even an aikidoka.
It's a bad reference.
Don't get me wrong. Aikido has many useful techniques. It's just not a complete system nor do most people train realistically. Many people (Many, *NOT* all) think that aikido is some magic defence. This is not often true because few aikidoka train the way O-Sensei probably learnt and perfected his art. Remember O-Sensei truly *fought*. He could probably take hits to his head and still have a clear enough head to continue on. Remember what else O-Sensei actually trained in.
Remember, you get in a fight, it's rare that you'll escape without taking a hit. And most aikidoka (except them that have the sense to train more realistically) do not train to take hits.
Anyway, with relevance to this article, a koshi nage (of any sort) is a very swift movement in which *you* flip your assailant onto the hard ground. This is will usually terminate an engagement, *instantly*.
It's no way anything like making someone open more and more sockets till they crash from lack of resources.
Which is why I fail to see the analogy, in this article. I know I am nitpicking.
This tool is only in defence of HTTP flood. This is different to the majority of DDOS attacks that are used such as SYN Flood and UDP Flood which are higher up the protocol stack. They are both harder to detect too.
The dropping of packets is an interesting one though, that could help slow down some DDOS.
"In early December, researchers from security firm Radware were dispatched to repel attacks against a company being targeted by the Anonymous hacking collective and could only be described as fierce and potentially devastating."
Is it the Radware researchers that can only be described as fierce and potentially devastating? What about handsome?
If you're referring to a denial-of-service overload attack on the internet, that seems a bit of an abstract thing to be called "fierce". It's just a lot of data.
F5 and Citrix (Netscaler) web application firewalls have been dropping JS into HTTP responses in order to determine human+browser or bot for a while. I don't know how reliable it is compared to the work done in this article but it's not new.
Good story though.
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