I know its not an attack directly to COMODO.
But may I ask if COMODO its involved somehow in providing some kind of protection to attacks like the one from ANONYMOUS this next November 5th?
How can Comodo offer protection in this cases (what product or services should be considered)?
I ask this, because COMODO its a security company… thus you have more experience with this type of threats.
you mean protection for web pages databases?
Any possible protection…
Anonymous El Salvador succeeded!
They DDoS and hacked the following sites they said they would attack:
http://www.asamblea.gob.sv/
http://www.pnc.gob.sv/
http://www.liceocastilla.edu.sv/
Wish I could know what would be the story behind this, if COMODO would have protected this Government sites. 8)
They forget Fox.com and Facebook.com they said it was for today (NOV 5). Good thing those sites where not taken down, image the mayhem.
The press said that they would target facebook and fox news.
But they deny and ask the press not to spread wrong information.
Alright. Trust something that’s decreasing most of the time 
in this case not sure who to trust.
In the world we live on, I rather trusting Anonymous than the press (who manipulates info at its will)… !ot!
I would like to know from COMODO what type of advisory or service would be effective for governments to defend themselves against this type of attacks.
(To block at a 100%, I dont think so. But at least to give them a harder work).
actually here is the whole thing, anonymous has a few vectors of attack, like DOS attacks and others are hacking their servers directly.
DOS attacks can be prevented in two ways, one as a user you can use a good security product to keep you from being part of the bot net. Another way is using hardware on the server side to stop dos attacks. The first one is the easiest to do, if everyone has CIS the chance of you being part of a bot net is basically nil. The second is hardest because what ever you use on the server side it has to have the ability to identify when a real request is coming in vs. a dos attack one. This can be done by thing like real request can only happen once every 2 seconds from a real user (IP) but if another IP is trying to access you sever 10 times a second that is really not possible so that IP will be blocked. Things like that can be used to block DOS attacks on the server. Comodo does not yet do anything on server security, it is a totally different beast to secure a sever then to secure a personal computer and who knows if they will ever want to move into that or not.
On the directly hacking servers, the only way to prevent these to to have a multilayer security system set up on your server, from a good firewall, to strong passwords and making sure all of your software is up to date. Most of the hacking uses unknown security holes in the software, so your security system on the system should use multiple layers that is able to mitigate attacks even if they are coming in on an unknown vector.
Thank you languy99.
Finally someone stood up (sadly not a COMODO employee), but the information is very credible and very down to earth (meaning realistic).
Thats why I respect you languy99.
Thanks again for your clear answer. I understood everything. :-TU