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Black Hat USA 2013 - Spy-Jacking the Booters

Black Hat · talk · Watch on YouTube

Security & hackingPrivacy, surveillance & cybercrimeNetworking & internet infrastructure

What it is

Brian Krebs and Lance James present research on DDoS booter services at Black Hat 2013, including the SWATting Krebs suffered. HN knows it mainly for a later exchange between Krebs and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Mostly cited as the source of the Krebs critique of Cloudflare and Prince's onstage response, which commenters debate.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “I encourage them to view the video for themselves.”

    Watch the exchange to judge Prince's reply yourself

    j_s, 2017-06 · Recommendation · in “Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: brian krebs, booters, swatting, cloudflare, black hat

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