With my post earlier this month about the possibility of SIP botnets, I’ve had a number of people asking about more information and wondering about the possible impacts.  And while I will write more on botnets in general, as far as the potential impact of “botnets” in general, one need only look over at the current situation in Estonia:

• Washington Post: “Cyber Assaults on Estonia Typify a New Battle Tactic“
• CNN: “Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks“
• BBC: “Estonia hit by ‘Moscow cyber war’“

Now, perhaps Russia is behind the attack… perhaps not. There are obviously much larger political issues going on between the two states.  In the end it doesn’t really matter on one level who exactly is behind it… the net of it is that Estonian entities are being attacked in a massive Distributed DoS (DDoS) brought about in part by botnets. For anyone doubting the potential threat, you need only to read through those news articles to understand what can happen.

In fact, I found it interesting that the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) issued an advisory today about the DDoS attacks against Estonia, mostly to reassure people in the UK that…