{"id":30411,"date":"2016-09-23T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:14:04","slug":"someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"Someone is learning how to take down the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is definitely something that we should all be aware of, and watching for.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"submarine cable map\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"294\"><b><center>Submarine cables map (credit: Teleography)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/09\/someone_is_lear.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> by security expert Bruce Schneier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. It feels like a nation\u2019s military cybercommand trying to calibrate its weaponry in the case of cyberwar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schneier said major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work [presumably, ones such as Cisco] have seen an increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_attack\" target=\"_blank\">distributed denial of service<\/a> (DDoS) attacks against them, and the attacks are significantly larger, last longer, and are more sophisticated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/someone-is-learning-how-to-take-down-the-internet<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is definitely something that we should all be aware of, and watching for. Submarine cables map (credit: Teleography) \u201cOver the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet,\u201d according to a blog post by security expert Bruce Schneier. \u201cThese probes take the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66177,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30411\/revisions\/66177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}