How whitehats stopped the DDoS attack that knocked Spamhaus offline

Nicely wrapped up here...
-http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html

Reminds me of Blue Security's Blue Frog incidents without the tragic demise. Hopefully.

 

Actually the title is somehow misleading as only the website not the main database servers were offline. It is surprising how Spamhaus managed to keep the service up with 100G of DDoS.

http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/694/ddos-update-20-march-2013

 

Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/t...dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html

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• http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/27/biggest-ever-internet-attack-is-indeed-huge-but-not-global/

'Largest' public denial of service attack in internet history linked to European spam dispute
• http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/27/4152540/largest-ddos-attack-spamhaus-linked-to-cyberbunker-spam

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• http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyol...uld-have-been-carried-out-with-just-a-laptop/

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• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237938/Update_Spamhaus_hit_by_biggest_ever_DDoS_attacks

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• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57576699-83/did-the-spam-cyber-fight-really-slow-down-the-internet/