Our company along with a number of other financial institutions were victims of DOS attacks for us they lasted about 38 hours and the source seems to be Iran but the attacks actually came from several places across the world.

If someone wanted to create real havoc, why wouldn't they just continue? Why would they stop?

 

come again

 

come again

After 38 hours the attacks stopped. If they are coming from some unknown source in the middle of Iran, who is to stop them? There is no reason to stop. Other than Leon Pannetta launching a missile attack against Iran.

 

Reasons bad guys stop doing something; Risk of getting caught? Achieved the objective? Both?

 

They were in the middle of Iran. Almost no chance of getting caught. I doubt any kind of objective was achieved other than an inconvenience for a few days but an extended attack over several weeks or months could be crippling. These were terrorist attacks, I would think they would want to achieve a goal greater than a little inconvenience.

 

They may have run out of ammo?,38 hours of servers banning IPs is a flipping lot of IPs.

 

Why would "Iran" do that?

Makes little sense to me.

 

Why would "Iran" do that?

Makes little sense to me.

Because we (USA) and/or Israel apparently did it to their nuclear centrifuge program.

Ken

 

This one is actually simple, if they continued we would cut every internet connection Iran has, and possibly use it to justify military action. Neither is a win scenario to Iran.

 

Once the political and Public Relations impact is realized, there is no need to continue.


Can you say "packet spoofing"???

 

Or "testing the water"?