How to deal with SYN FLOOD and extortion
mpk: The big boys seem to be a little reluctant to publish information on their DDoS strategies. (If anyone has information that says otherwise, it's much appreciated).I spent some time googling around and in case anyone's interested, these links seem to cover most of the mitigation patterns.A slideshow covering common mitigation techniques,
http://www.slideshare.net/intruguard/10-ddos-mitigation-tech...A Cisco whitepaper (which, as usual, has en emphasis on Cisco kit and a long URL),
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5879/ps...A fairly comprehensive PDF document - A Survey of Active and Passive Defence Mechanisms against DDoS Attackshttp://www.fbi.cqu.edu.au/FCWViewer/getFile.do?id=17921