A hacker under the alias Th3j35t3r
claims he created an application named XerXes
which enables to perform DDoS attacks without using botnets
, zombie pc's
and with no collateral damage to intermediary nodes and no long term damage to target.
See for live DDoS attack recorded on video: >> here <<
This video just worries me (because the internet might be not save), on the other hand I think it's fake because how can anyone launch an DDoS attack (Th3j35ter claimed he was responsible for the attack on wikileaks' website) with 10 gigabit / second from a single pc? And that while Wikileaks is using load-balancers on 3 different ip's?
Does anyone know if this is for real? If it's real, how does it work? And how can websites protect itself from this?
(I am not a hacker/cracker/scriptkiddie and I don't want to be!!)