I was checking the news this morning and I came across this article:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/27\/technology\/internet\/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0<\/p>\n
WTF?<\/p>\n
It has to do with a DDOS attack that spawns from Cyberbunker being added to a blacklist.\u00a0 Cyberbunker DDOS’s the hell outta some DNS servers if the Times News article is anywhere close.<\/p>\n
Here is a quote from the article:\u00a0 “The attacks are becoming increasingly powerful, and computer security experts worry that if they continue to escalate people may not be able to reach basic Internet services, like e-mail and online banking.”<\/p>\n
The guys that write this shit suck.\u00a0 People are pulled into it too.\u00a0 Computer security experts are ‘worried’.\u00a0 About fucking what?\u00a0 Email and online banking?\u00a0 Netflix?\u00a0 Who cares if you cant access your shitty Netflix.\u00a0 OMG I NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY I HAVE IN THE BANK NOW.\u00a0 I WONDER IF GMA GOT MY EMAIL ABOUT THOSE COOKIES?\u00a0 First world problems.<\/p>\n
Another quote:\u00a0 \u201cThese things are essentially like nuclear bombs,\u201d said Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare. \u201cIt\u2019s so easy to cause so much damage.\u00a0 Matthew Prince.\u00a0 Matthew fucking Prince…using 1950s sensationalism related to nuclear weapons to describe a fucking DDOS attack.\u00a0 This guy is a real winner.\u00a0 Its more like a giant traffic jam.\u00a0 Deal with it.\u00a0 The prince of sensationalism and is just glad to get his company in the headlines.\u00a0 You should sign up for his services.<\/p>\n
The so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks have reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second.<\/p>\n
OMG.\u00a0 BILLION?!!?!\u00a0 Thats like a lot right?<\/p>\n
I like how John Markoff (The genius that wrote this glorious piece) finds a quote from Dan Kaminsky and adds it in:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe No. 1 rule of the Internet is that it has to work,\u201d said Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher who years ago pointed out the inherent vulnerabilities of the Domain Name System. \u201cYou can\u2019t stop a DNS flood by shutting down those servers because those machines have to be open and public by default. The only way to deal with this problem is to find the people doing it and arrest them.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remember hearing Dan talk at Defcon and if he said this it was not because he wanted to be the only solution.\u00a0 Considering the guy is so heavy into DNS and actual computer security I am sure he has another solution.\u00a0 He may have even been talking or inferring about another solution in the same paragraph.<\/p>\n
More crap written buy another jerk at Times News that is read by the millions of morons who support any solution to make them safer.\u00a0 I wish these idiots would stop referring to DDOS attacks as anything more then what they are.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was checking the news this morning and I came across this article:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/27\/technology\/internet\/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 WTF? It has to do with a DDOS attack that spawns from Cyberbunker being added to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}