“The media frenzy surrounding the February DDOS attacks on
Amazon, Yahoo and e-Bay isn’t surprising. Would-be consumers, Janet
Reno, even the President realized just how easy some of Wall
Street’s favorites can be taken out of business. It was a real wake
up call.”
“What is surprising, at least to those who’ve been following
e-commerce and security for awhile, is the media’s failure to look
into the core problem, which is shoddy infrastructure. If companies
developing their Web stores paid more attention to security, these
attacks would not have been nearly so successful.”
“… by following best of breed security practices, many an
e-business could at the least minimize their downtime to 10-15
minutes instead of the 2-4 hour lapses that occurred in
February. At best, they could deflect the attacks altogether.”