(APNIC 28 - APOPS) The Emperor's New Cloud: An Analysis of the July 2009 RoK/USA DDoS Attacks, by Roland Dobbins of Arbor Networks

This talk will discuss the attack methodologies, observed impact, and lessons learned from the July 2009 RoK/USA DDoS attacks. Highlights include technical details of the attacking botnet, DDoS network traffic, including composition, rates, and scope, and why the attacks were successful and unsuccessful in certain cases. The talk will include data on the attacks derived from a worldwide network of Internet traffic sensors, a recounting of first-hand experiences detecting/classifying/tracing back/mitigating the DDoS attacks in question, and discussion of the implications of this incident in the context of the industry-wide migration towards virtualization and cloud computing services.