[VoiceOps] "TelePacific Network Outage: Cyber-Terrorism?"

[Joseph Jackson]

I'm always amazed at what people will classify as terrorism.  

-----Original Message-----
From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Matt Yaklin
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 11:18 AM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] "TelePacific Network Outage: Cyber-Terrorism?"


sounds like a denial of service attack on SBCs that were not configured
properly or the attacker found a way to hammer them even with best
practices setup. Maybe using very little traffic too.

also one would think that attacker would spoof his source IP address
and never want a response back so tracking down who did this is a huge
pain.

or maybe they flooded the whole pipe going to the SBC the old fashioned 
way.

just guessing... normally the old ways of hurting an ISP work the best...

terrorism to me is putting a bomb in the rack. cyber-terrorism to me
is wanting page hits by a news company.

m



On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Frank Bulk wrote:

> http://www.channelpartnersonline.com/news/2011/03/telepacific-network-outage
> -cyber-terrorism.aspx?nck=1
>
> Anyone have more information on this?  Didn't seem important enough to make
> this list, if that's any measure.
>
> Frank
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