Adapting To The Age Of Anonymous

About Joshua Corman Director of Security Intelligence for Akamai Technologies •Former Research Director, Enterprise Security [The 451 Group] •Former Principal Security Strategist [IBM ISS] Industry Experience •Expert Faculty: The Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS) •2009 NetworkWorld Top 10 Tech People to Know •Co-Founder of “Rugged Software” www.ruggedsoftware.org Things I’ve been researching •Compliance vs Security •Disruptive Security for Disruptive Innovations •Chaotic Actors •Espionage •Security Metrics2 ©2011 Akamai

Operation Payback(Anonymous Takes Center Stage)August-December 2010Initial Targets • MPAA • RIAA • Intellectual Property OfficesIn December, switched to WikiLeaks “defense” • Financial services: PayPal, Mastercard, Visa • Public personas: Lieberman, Palin • Others: Lawyers, security researchersStats: • 1k-3k attackers in IRC • 1500 copies of LOIC in Hivemind (# in IRC/2) • 1.5 Gbps peak attack traffic (# in IRC/2) • 750 Mbps sustained traffic (# in IRC/4) ©2011 Akamai

Some of my data 600• Typical Attack Size: 3-10 Gbps 500• Large Attack Size: 100-200 Gbps 400 Number of Attacks• Attacks are originating from all geographies and are moving between geographies 300 during the attack 200 100 0 2009 2010 2011 ©2011 Akamai

July 4th – 7th 2009 DDoS Attack400,000 Korean Bots Attack Key U.S. Government Web Sites Times Above Agency – PROTECTED Peak Traffic Normal Traffic U.S. Government Customer 1 124 Gbps 598x U.S. Government Customer 2 32 Gbps 369x U.S. Government Customer 3 9 Gbps 39x U.S. Government Customer 4 9 Gbps 19x U.S. Government Customer 5 2 Gbps 9x U.S. Government Customer 6 1.9 Gbps 6x New U.S. Government Customer 0.7 Gbps SITE DOWN before Akamai ©2011 Akamai

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