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Police arrest suspect accused of “unprecedented” DDoS attack on Spamhaus


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Police arrest suspect accused of “unprecedented” DDoS attack on Spamhaus

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Spanish authorities have arrested a 35-year-old Dutchman they say is "suspected of unprecedented heavy attacks" on
Spamhaus, the international group that helps network owners around the world block spam.

A press release (English translation here) issued by the Dutch Public Prosecutor Service identified the suspect only by
the initials SK and said he was living in Barcelona. A variety of circumstantial evidence, mostly taken from this Facebook profile,
strongly suggests the suspect is one Sven Olaf Kamphuis. He's the man quoted in a March 26 New York Times article saying a
Dutch hosting company called CyberBunker, which Kamphuis is affiliated with, was behind distributed denial-of-service attacks
aimed at Spamhaus. Kamphuis later denied he or CyberBunker had anything to do with the attacks.

With peaks of 300 gigabits per second, the March attacks were among the biggest ever recorded. Besides their size, they were
also notable because they attacked the London Internet Exchange, a regional hub where multiple networks from different service
providers connect. As Ars writer Peter Bright explained, the size and technique threatened to clog up the Internet's core
infrastructure and make access to the rest of the Internet slow or impossible. While some critics said that assessment was
overblown, Bright provided this follow-up explaining why the attacks had the potential to break key parts of the Internet.

The crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks began a few weeks after Spamhaus added CyberBunker to one of the
real-time blacklists that ISPs use to block e-mail from networks suspected of engaging in, or at least turning a blind eye to, the
sending of spam. CyberBunker has long been known as an "anything goes" host provider. As long as content isn't "child porn and
anything related to terrorism," the company permits it. According to an article published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity, Spamhaus
officials contacted CyberBunker after seeing botnet controllers and illegal pharmaceutical operators hosted on its service. "We got
a rude reply back, and he made claims about being his own independent country in the republic of CyberBunker, and said he was
not bound by any laws and whatnot," an unnamed Spamhaus official told reporter Brian Krebs. Kamphuis' Facebook page has
also claimed he has diplomatic immunity.

It should be emphasized that so far there is no official confirmation that the SK in custody is Kamphuis. Even if it is, he should still
be presumed innocent until proven otherwise. Dutch prosecutors said SK's Barcelona residence was searched and computers,
data carriers, and mobile phones were seized. They also said they expect SK to be transferred to Dutch authorities soon. We'll be
eager to learn if there's evidence that can conclusively tie the man to one of the biggest reported DDoS attacks ever.

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Not sure, to be happy or to be sad. SH incident is quite confusing for me to take a side.

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he slowed down the entire internet..that is good? If he as an argument with someone he should not make the entire world wide users of the net pay the price..or could that statement be wrong some how

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he slowed down the entire internet..that is good? If he as an argument with someone he should not make the entire world wide users of the net pay the price..or could that statement be wrong some how

That's a good point. But multiple parties were involved, SH is claimed to be a big time bully and even though the DDoS or slowing down the internet isn't justified, it did bring the issue forward.

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If he as an argument with someone he should not make the entire world wide users of the net pay the price..or could that statement be wrong some how

that's how World War I started
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actually WW1 (root cause)started because England began to get quite worried that Germany's navy was beginning to rival theirs... if you rules the oceans you rules the world back then...the rest of the reasons were all window dressing

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WW1 started with the assasination of Franz Ferdinand, not England worrying about the German navy. Britain faced a choice between war and its status as a world power, the invasion of Belgium by Germany, provided the excuse needed for Britain joining the conflict against Germany, as you rightly say ,worried about naval superiority but also other factors

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way before the assignation, England was extremely worried about German naval power and how fast it was growing..in fact there was a arms race going on with "dreadnoughts" ...super battle ships... history books tell us the reasons that are given for wars..not too many will talk of the root causes as to why nations were first at odds with each other initially...why do you think the very first thing England demanded of Germany for an end to that war was the complete scuttling of the German navy. Even today.. How would you think the USA would respond if any nation not on friendly terms with the USA, or the West, was to begin building 20 or 30 super aircraft carriers... there would be a war going on BEFORE they were half way built. Do you know the threat one single carrier group can do any nation if you park it off their shoreline. Why do you think the USA was not to worried about the recent rhetoric coming out on North Korea... all parties concerned especially the North Korean leader and his armed forces knew what would happen if they were not just posturing for the world press

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I am not arguing about naval supremacy, i agreed with you in my post, but WW1 did not start because of England, as you stated.

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ask any military historian about why an arms races caused WW1 and especially the battle ship arms race that was going on bewtween England and germnany in the years leading up to world war 1..not a political historian, but a military historian... the assignation was the reason given to the public back in 1914not saying it was simply an excuse or anything but it was so to speak, the straw that broke the camels back in very tense situation that had been building for years. ... the general public had no real idea nor were they allowed to know the the back room dealings and secret alliances made between England and their allies and Germany and their allies...Both countries were setting the stage and knowingly heading to war against each other at some point in the near future...problem was, neither of them relly knew in advance just how big it was going to become

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ask any military historian about why an arms races caused WW1 and especially the battle ship arms race that was going on bewtween England and germnany in the years leading up to world war 1..not a political historian, but a military historian... the assignation was the reason given to the public back in 1914not saying it was simply an excuse or anything but it was so to speak, the straw that broke the camels back in very tense situation that had been building for years. ... the general public had no real idea nor were they allowed to know the the back room dealings and secret alliances made between England and their allies and Germany and their allies...Both countries were setting the stage and knowingly heading to war against each other at some point in the near future...problem was, neither of them relly knew in advance just how big it was going to become

never heard of that theory. sounds a bit weird to me since England was rather military unprepared in 1914 and the reason they entered the war was because Germany has invanded belgium.

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WW1 started with the assasination of Franz Ferdinand, not England worrying about the German navy. Britain faced a choice between war and its status as a world power, the invasion of Belgium by Germany, provided the excuse needed for Britain joining the conflict against Germany, as you rightly say ,worried about naval superiority but also other factors

Did Franz Ferdinand get reincarnated into a rock band

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@dMog

WW1 started with the assasination of Franz Ferdinand, not England worrying about the German navy. Britain faced a choice between war and its status as a world power, the invasion of Belgium by Germany, provided the excuse needed for Britain joining the conflict against Germany, as you rightly say ,worried about naval superiority but also other factors

Did Franz Ferdinand get reincarnated into a rock band

yes...yes he was...

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