Denial of Service

[Im-Magic]

My service providor is currently undergoing a Denial of Service attack by some lowlife hackers. This means that I have been without email or a website for 12 hours. Until you have to do without you do not realise just how much we now rely on these services and how badly denial can effect our business. I am lucky in that I have another email that I can use but all orders that normally come in over the weekend are currently blocked.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

I have heard of this, but don't quite understand it.  There used to be a search engine that kept Google from tracking you...for the purpose of targeted advertizing, I've forgotten the name. The went belly up, largely because of denial of service attacks, if I remember correctly.  Google didn't want them around. That's my conclusion, but that might just be a simpleton, computer neophyte understanding.

Gosh, what was the name of that anonymous browsing site.......

[sweetts]

Yep yahoo had issues this week


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[Im-Magic]

This is the message I get.

This is to notify you that we are currently experiencing heavy flood attack against several servers that is blocking the connectivity to the entire network.

UDP flood attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a sessionless/connectionless computer networking protocol. UDP flood attack can be initiated by sending a large number of UDP packets to random ports on a remote host so that no applications can be seen on that ports.

This will be shortly handled and the servers accessible again.

[ebscreen]

Does your provider maybe host questionable sites?

This happened to GoDaddy back in September, mostly because GoDaddy sucks.

FWIW, I've had HostGator for 4 years or so and have always been pleased.

[brandon]

DDOS (dedicated denial of service) attacks happen every day, all day over the entire web. Usually script kiddies according to some of my buddies in the computer industry. Of course there are the serious ones meant to cause harm, steal info, or whatever, but nothing to get crazy about until unfortunately it happens to your server. And when (not if, but when) we get an attack on our nations' power grid. That is going to be the big one. Scary

[Im-Magic]

Finally back up after 8 hours. Denial of Service attacks are done for the simple reason That they Can They have targeted Airlines and Banks in the past but they are getting harder so to cause maximum mischeif they are now going for some of the major host sites. My site was Peir 1 in Fremont Ca.

[Gilligan]

They usually do have motives.  They don't just attack for "no reason"... granted, whether their reason is "legit" or not is up for debate.  Usually a site does something (actual or just ideological) that pisses off the wrong person/people and they get attacked for it.

The sites that were against wiki-leaks got hammered a while back for example.

Same reason people protest the US, it's not just that they "hate our freedom" but there is usually a larger reason that we are just kept in the dark about.

[ebscreen]

Blowback.

Chalmers Johnson.

Know it.

[Sbrem]

Blowback.

Chalmers Johnson.

Know it.

I woke up feeling, well, not happy, thinking about life and whatnot. Eventually, as always, it fades and I'm my normal self. Then I see this, and do a quick check, read a summary about it, and I'm not happy again. I'm so glad I'm not a kid...

Steve

[ebscreen]

Well, the stuff has already happened and is happening and will happen, but homeboy here just explains why.
Hell, most of the book deals with Cold War era stuff we're still dealing with.

[inkman996]

I have heard of the series been meaning to but them some day.

History is a wonderful thing, just look back as far as the Egyptians and see what happens to every single empire in its time.