That's extremely pretty but the FAQ suggests that it is highly misleading:
> Does an attack's source country indicate the location of the attacker? (...) The source of an attack can (and often is) forged to appear as though it is initiated from a different location and, when accurate, usually represents the location of an infected computer being used in a botnet
I also find it weird to speak of attacks on/from countries, surely the targets are specific sites or services? Right now it looks like cyber warfare between countries.
> DDoS often uses DNS Reflection to amplify the bandwidth of the attack. The source of the attack will be a) distributed b) not the actual attackers.
This is true, but DNS reflection is dependent on aloof admins running open DNS resolvers. To say they're "not the actual attackers" when they're enabling the attack is not entirely accurate.
At the very least the target of the attacks, which is obviously not obscured, is meaningful information.
EDIT, disclosure: Arbor Networks (one of the partners here) is my employer. I am not a PR guy, my opinions are my own, yadda yadda etc.
Arbor (disclosure: my employer from 2001-2005) is the commanding market leader in DDOS data. You'd assume any service built in any way on DDOS data would have some kind of relationship to them; they've instrumented pretty much the whole Internet backbone.
I know, I've used Arbor in the past and my current employer does as well. I've had nothing but good experiences with them... Just from the about page, we get two Google Research related groups + Arbor which would suggest a relationship with Project Shield
> Does an attack's source country indicate the location of the attacker? (...) The source of an attack can (and often is) forged to appear as though it is initiated from a different location and, when accurate, usually represents the location of an infected computer being used in a botnet
I also find it weird to speak of attacks on/from countries, surely the targets are specific sites or services? Right now it looks like cyber warfare between countries.