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Offline ROC

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Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« on: October 21, 2016, 06:27:40 PM »
This looks like a big one.  Buggers are getting more and more sophisticated every day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems-attack.html?_r=0
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2016, 07:25:32 PM »
I'm skeptic about hackers version;, guess who's got the most to win from an internet black out over next 2 weeks? !  ;, and they took over the internet on oct. 1st , anything can happen. I've been watching this today and withdrawn some cash this evening, who knows could expand into banking networks.

https://threatmap.fortiguard.com/

https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/ThreatPortal/livemap.html


 Reptilian female president during nuclear war, coming soon !  :rofl

« Last Edit: October 21, 2016, 07:50:30 PM by ghi »
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2016, 08:02:29 PM »
Quote from: ghi on October 21, 2016, 07:25:32 PM

 Reptilian female president during nuclear war, coming soon !  :rofl



Reptilian she may be, but she's no Jane Badler.

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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 08:05:23 PM »
She has man hands  :old:
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2016, 08:20:03 PM »
Quote from: Meatwad on October 21, 2016, 08:05:23 PM
She has man hands  :old:
would you prefer hooks?  :devil
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2016, 08:34:02 PM »
Quote from: Meatwad on October 21, 2016, 08:05:23 PM
She has man hands  :old:

and man boobs!  :x  id vote for her.  :aok

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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2016, 08:44:54 PM »
The film is directed by Timo Vuorensola , sick imagination naked finns sucking vodka in sauna, i hope is not prophetic.
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2016, 08:49:38 PM »
Quote from: Devil 505 on October 21, 2016, 08:20:03 PM
would you prefer hooks?  :devil

A hook job? No way!
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2016, 02:11:38 AM »
Quote from: Meatwad on October 21, 2016, 08:05:23 PM
She has man hands  :old:

She sounds hideous..... well of course she's a man
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2016, 03:41:55 AM »
Quote from: ROC on October 21, 2016, 06:27:40 PM
This looks like a big one.  Buggers are getting more and more sophisticated every day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems-attack.html?_r=0

There is nothing majorly sophisticated about a DoS or DDoS attack. A 10 year old with little IT knowledge at all can launch one. All you need is a few $$$.

They don't really achieve much, unless your network security is from the 1990s, and if you're on a decent ISP they will have DDoS mitigation systems in place.
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2016, 04:41:37 AM »
Quote from: Vulcan on October 22, 2016, 03:41:55 AM
There is nothing majorly sophisticated about a DoS or DDoS attack. A 10 year old with little IT knowledge at all can launch one. All you need is a few $$$.

They don't really achieve much, unless your network security is from the 1990s, and if you're on a decent ISP they will have DDoS mitigation systems in place.

That is true. The only difference this time is they are not targeting a site but instead dns servers. This in turn affects a lot of sites.
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2016, 12:23:55 PM »
Nothing more than the first test of the infamous 'internet kill switch' touted by the administration years back as on the preezys to-do want list.  It just took getting the DNS supervision moved to other countries so the smart guys in the US don't get wind of it.  So far it seems to work albeit spotty, but I bet they'll keep working on it.  The globalists are rubbing their hands in anticipation.   :noid
« Last Edit: October 22, 2016, 12:26:44 PM by redcatcherb412 »
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2016, 01:07:22 PM »
This might be a dumb question, but: Who would benefit from killing the Internet? I can understand a short term hostage situation where the attackers would ask for a fee to free a site, but even then how would they send their ransom request? By snail mail?

I can imagine a situation where the editors would tell a "news flash" like this:"We just got news that yesterday a ransom letter dated a week ago had arrived..." Just like a hundred years ago.
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM »
Quote from: Bizman on October 22, 2016, 01:07:22 PM
I can imagine a situation where the editors would tell a "news flash" like this:"We just got news that yesterday a ransom letter dated a week ago had arrived...


...demanding ONE MILLION DOLLAR... "
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Re: Large denial of service attack has sites shut down
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2016, 01:31:44 PM »
Quote from: Lusche on October 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

...demanding ONE MILLION DOLLAR... " (Image removed from quote.)
... to be shared with the hacker community of a thousand members.
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