Hello and welcome to Malicious Life I'm RAN Levy. 2016 is known throughout the circles of information security as the year of the

D-D-D-D-D-Sattacks and rightfully so.

Five large-scale D-D-D-D-D-Sattax, distributed denial of service, shocked the technology world.

The biggest was the attack on the American DNS provider then

which affected some major websites such as Twitter,

ETSI, GitHub and others and made the danger of D-D-D-D-D-D-Sats attacks known to the public and to decision-makers.

Information security experts were in surprise, of course.

They'd be dealing with D-D-D-D-Sattax for years.

They are one of the oldest cyber... dealing with D-D-D-D-D-D-Sats attacks for years.

They are one of the oldest cyber threats, but also one of the most complex and difficult to deal with.

Why?

This will be the question we answer in this episode.

We'll discuss the evolution of D-D-D-D-S attacks from a tool used to express political ideas and ideological

resistance into a weapon used by cyber criminals.

We will try to understand why this threat is such a hard nut to crack and eventually we will

discuss the possible solutions,

especially some radical and highly controversial ones,

like purposefully destroying consumer devices.

The basic idea behind a denial of service attack is so simple that you've probably seen it in action many times.

An ice cream truck rolls down the street, its speakers blasting loud

music, and instantly a bunch of sweet toddlers playing in the playground

become a pack of wild animals.

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