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RE: Akamai an Inside Job?

  • From: Rodney Green
  • Date: Wed Jun 16 12:40:07 2004 
He did provide a link

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David Kennedy CISSP wrote:

 > The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by
  > Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the 
load
 > and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw
 > an "Internet performance issue" this morning
 > ...

  Here's a link to a Reuter's article with official quotes from Keynote 
Systems: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040615/tech_internet_1.html Keynote 
saw availability of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google drop to near-zero.

 I have no clue where David got the information that:
 > They have tracked the attacker back to person that is at the Akamai
 > Technologies ISP. No other information has been given to us at this
 > time.

 That tidbit didn't come from Keynote. Can you provide a link, David?

  -DaveU