ipv6 day DDoS threat?

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I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave
un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter"
about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically
about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in
preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even
calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a
shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a
similar fashion?

Mark Pace

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Just got the same phone call from "A large company" and it was a sales call.

They are "offering DDoS mitigation services"

I'll pass :slight_smile:

-=Tom Donnelly

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It wasn't Radware, was it?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-ipv6-security.html

  If not, it would seem that there's no shortage of IPv6 FUD this week.

      Jima

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In a message written on Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:42:40AM -0700, Mark Pace wrote:

I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave
un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter"
about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically
about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in

I thought the goal was to get everyone to try out IPv6. Doesn't that
include the miscreants? :slight_smile:

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I can confirm it was not Radware.

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We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day participants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically targeted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's merely a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage.

The caller claimed to represent Verisign (though we took no steps to verify that claim). If anyone from Verisign is on the list, you may want to look into this, especially if this is actually coming from one of your employees.

Nathan

7

Hehe.. yeah, no thanks - I'll do it myself with our existing DDOS
mitigation. :wink:

Paul

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Well, if I was evil I'd be looking for IPv6 back doors tomorrow...

Tim

9

I can confirm, it was indeed Verisign who emailed me with the same message.

I am slightly disappointed by this course of action, needless to say I am
not surprised, because this kind of behavior is
expected from sales people.

I had a bit more respect for them, however...

-ck

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No, that's when everybody will be looking closely for the smallest sign of
wonkyness. What the *truly* evil will do is wait till Thursday for all the
sites that forgot to turn IPv6 off. Or you got whacked last night and
don't know it yet. :wink: