Estonia DDOS Attack UPDATE

According to Infoworld, Estonia recieves help from NATO to trace the DDOS attacks. They are now recovering.

The attacks are traced to many different countries - US, Canada, Brazil amongst others. I wonder where is the surprise? After all, the first D in DDOS is Distributed. As in different locations, computers, countries. Doing so makes it hard to trace the attack, and easy to take down services in a cheap manner as there is no need for the attacker to invest in a large amount of equipment. Just spread the bots using virus, trojans and worms. Manage the bots through different relays and stay hidden.

This post serves to update the Estonia DDOS attack post.