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Mapping The Real-Time Global Cyberwar
On Monday, Google rolled out three new initiatives to ensure the openness of the Internet and access to the service -- even in the face of government crackdowns on the web. As Foreign Policy notes, one of those tools is a proxy plug-in -- creatively titled uProxy -- that uses a peer-to-peer system to create secure Internet connections. Another tool, Project Shield, promises to protect human rights organizations and NGOs from so-called DDoS attacks, which take down a website by directing a flood of traffic toward it and overwhelming it or rendering it unusable. The last project rolled out this week is something called the Digital Attack Map, which is embedded below. It's a fascinating, interactive map that monitors DDoS attacks around the world -- an effort Google hopes will raise awareness about the problem.
The map, which draws on data collected by the network security firm Arbor Networks, provides a nifty visualization of an issue that's been in the headlines constantly over the last year or so.
The result is the first real visualization of what cyberwar looks like in real time. So what can we learn from the effort? Here are some incidents that jump out in playing around with the map.
Source: Google and Foreign Policy
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That is what WW3 looks like. Ping of Death, DDoS and SLow Lorus.
thats loose - http://hedge.ly/1h9P4Za
ISPs could offer an add-on to filter IPs originating from China.
That's easy to spoof.
fuck you google
The only way to win, is not to Google Play.
The Real-Time Global Cyberwar...
"Fuck yeah, it's real, I saw it on TV and the internets."
Ah, if only Google wasn't known to be compromised and in bed with the NSA, then these tools might mean something.
There's always Microsoft or Apple... right? Right!?
"I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?"
Artist: Queensryche
Album: Operation Mindcrime
REVOLUTION CALLING!!!!!!
Are you sure those aren't incoming ICBM's?
<I haven't seen that many flashing lights since I listened to "Funeral for a Friend" while imbibing Magic Mushrooms.>
These days, the blue bird on the telegraph line is most likely an NSA listening device.
I hope we're happy now.
Actually I am not happy now. Moar pain please. :)
"Happy" is a relative condition. The torture victim is just happy the torture has stopped for now while the torturer is happy when s/he can torture again.
When we seek validation and affirmation from external sources our emotional state become entirely dependent upon those very same external sources. I have found that most people are extremely unhappy, but since they have come to believe that they will never ever be truly happy they willingly (happily?) settle for whatever gruel the torturer hands out.
All wretch and no vomit. Who can be happy while in that state?
I just squished a very benign and innocuous insect on my table the other and reflexively said "goodbye NSA." I mean what is this world we're in now? things were a lot simpler when a poker game...was just a poker game.
Hopeless yet? Because that is the state of mind our oppressors wish us to adopt out of desperation. For only then will we beg our torturers for precisely what they want to apply anyway.
Consent....coerced, cajoled or connived from us is the ultimate human power transfer.
And we must stop the transfer NOW...by detaching.
Russia looks strangely quiet.
They're using China as the proxy launch pad
I was thinking they're probably the source of a lot of those 'source unknown' attacks.
Could be, I'd say they are that Syrian rebel Internet hacker squad, maybe down with Nth Korea too. Russia seems more convert. This is one for the conspiracy theorists: No one hacks Wall Street, London, central banks or otherwise....yet
What a kooky world we live in
"Russia looks strangely quiet."
As does Nigeria. Anytime now we should expect a hail of emails from their nouveau riche, yet ironically desperate young men requesting bank account numbers so as to keep their Humanitarian Aid monies out of the hands of the 'rebels'.
This is only for networks utilizing Arbor Networks Peakflow devices. The vast majority of networks do not utilize these devices.
Yup, network operating groups attempt to standardise on equipment but there are just so many to choose from. So they end up buying everything. A tool for every job. To move data from point A to point B, if B is not available then MTUBlackhole detect and choose failover point C under SNMP trap is sent from OID ipDefaultTTL 1.3.6.1.2.1.4.2 under whatever other conditions defined.
There is just so much cool junk out there, only seems right to play with it.
http://www.jcu.edu.au/internetaccounting/traffic/detail.shtml
Better world internet traffic stats than the internet traffic report. Very detailed. You can see where a country is working and go bed. You can see power outages by drops. Or predetect network outages from a node that are happening by watching for massive drops or the CPU's heating up to keep up with load.
Google.... about as genuine as an unapologetic sodomite and sex offender spreading awareness about the problem of anal rape.
And inviting you to submit your asshole to their anal rape awareness network.
let it roll:
http://pc-museum.com/046-imsai8080/wargames-05.jpg
Yeah ok. Trust Google? Fat chance.
Looks like outer space is the creating the most turmoil...
BlackBerry Z30 baby Crazy sweet phone
GOOGLE = Giant Organization Optimized for Graft Lies and Evil
Image rehabilitation in process. Bad press really does have an effect on your business.
They will be trotting out the children and some cutsey animal mascot in 3,2,1.....
Hen meet Mr Fox, your guardian.
more like "Mr Freud." I mean "cluck, cluck." aha....hmmm...and then "cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck...BAGOG!...cluck, cluck, cluck."
I'm pretty sure there is a Sharknado above DC. Why can't the sharks just stay in the ocean and why do they hate our freedoms? And by the way, don't these cyber shark terrorists know that Dick Cheney (wisely, I might add for such a brave and honorable fellow) disconnected the internet connection to his heart thingy so the bad guys couldn't take him out with their angry red dots? You're wasting your time Sharknadorists!
So, put your server in CA, AK, TX, Canada or Africa? Got it!
p.s. Good to see Africa, I just sent a big check to Africa. Just between us ZH friends, It seems I'm related to a prince, though I'm evidently the white side of the family, and once I get him bailed from jail, he's gonna share our granpappy's $500mil!
np thats just federal employees surfing porn. For the children.
Shall we play... a game?
Whose side is Google on ?
Will it display the prior US Govt DOS attacks on wikileaks?
Google flexing it's cyber-muscles. The all seeing eye ... sees more than the NSA ... leases access to its SAN network to the NSA.
This from the Don't Be Evil mobsters...every thing they offer up to 'protect' people will have a back door for them, the NSA, and any other 3-Letter batch of fascist oppressors the gubbamint has on staff.