• DDoS attack scrooges Amazon and others
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Service to Amazon, Wal-Mart and several other shopping sites was briefly blocked on Wednesday evening when their DNS provider was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Neustar, which provides DNS services to high profile website addresses under the UltraDNS brand, said the flood of malicious traffic, just two days before Christmas, was directed at the company's facilities in San Jose and Palo Alto, and that the effects were mostly limited to California users. The websites were only down for about an hour — but needless to say at a very inopportune time for some. Neustar said that it first detected the trouble around 4:45 p.m. Pacific Time (12:45 AM Thursday, GMT). Folks attempting last-minute shopping at Amazon, Wal-Mart, the Gap, and the travel site Expedia were ankled by outages and slow web browsing as a result of the DDoS attack. Other websites impacted include Salesforce.com and Linden Labs (maker of the game Second Life). In a message posted on Twitter, Jeff Barr of Amazon Web Services wrote that the retailer's outages were mostly in the US West Coast, and took down S3 and EC2 — as well as Amazon.com in "many places." "We analyzed the patterns and were able to put mitigation measures in place within minutes of identifying the attack," NeuStar said in an emailed statement. "We had everything under control in well under an hour. The attack was limited to Northern California internet users. All along the way we were proactively communicating to our customers to let them know exactly what was happening and the steps we were taking." This isn't the first time UltraDNS and its clients have been downed by DDoS attacks. In April, a larger DDoS attack took Amazon, SalesForce, Oracle and Juniper offline for several hours. Although more limited, Wednesday's malicious torrent of web traffic will insure that someone gets coal in their stocking. Source: [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/24/ddos_attack_ultradns_december_09/[/url]
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It sucks right? I had to explain to my mom why she got her gift on the 26th.
[QUOTE=luke7dude;19251081]Other websites impacted include Salesforce.com and [B]Linden Labs (maker of the game Second Life)[/B].[/QUOTE] Those guys seem alright!
aren't ddos easily trackable this day and age?
[QUOTE=DrLuke;19251173]Those guys seem alright![/QUOTE] What for letting out furries into the internet at large? They should be locked away under terrorism charges!
Hahaha, owned.
[QUOTE=wutanggrenad;19251287]aren't ddos easily trackable this day and age?[/QUOTE] Not really, often times the owners of the attacker PCs don't even know they're doing it, it's just a hidden piece of software that gullible people are tricked into downloading that turns their PC into a remote-controlled attacker.
You mean these idiots attacked Linden labs? What the heck? Is that way my Store stand is 20 kinds of fucked up and I had to give out items manually?
Bleh, that sucks. Thankfully didnt affect me :P
Looks 4Chan was up to their old tricks again...
[QUOTE=wutanggrenad;19251287]aren't ddos easily trackable this day and age?[/QUOTE] No, and the IP's you logged from such an attack are faked anyway. They dossed a few mayor Dutch websites and when they reported it to the police they said they could do nothing. So there you are, you have logged over 20 million IP's and there is nothing you can do.
[QUOTE=markg06;19251402]What for letting out furries into the internet at large? They should be locked away under terrorism charges![/QUOTE] What's so bad about furries? They'd make a nice new carpet for me!
[QUOTE=DrLuke;19253922]What's so bad about furries? They'd make a nice new carpet for me![/QUOTE] eh, I don't like burned carpets :smug:
[QUOTE=DrLuke;19253922]What's so bad about furries? They'd make a nice new carpet for me![/QUOTE] Carpet covered in various bodily fluids.
Sticky carpet
[QUOTE=pentium;19253162]Looks 4Chan was up to their old tricks again...[/QUOTE] You got any proof it was them?
The fact that this is one of the things they consider "Christmas Presents to the World."
[QUOTE=DrLuke;19251173]Those guys seem alright![/QUOTE] You shittin me? Now the furries'll try to find other things to go harass and defile with their drawing skills.
I want my own botnet so I could DDOS anybody who pisses me off. :sigh:
Why would all high profile sites want to congregate on the same DNS service?
Second Life creator found some sweet furry porn and shared it with his friends which contained the source of the DDoS attack. Seems Guessable.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;19260827]Why would all high profile sites want to congregate on the same DNS service?[/QUOTE] There was actually a dick in GMOD that did that.
[QUOTE=pentium;19253162]Looks 4Chan was up to their old tricks again...[/QUOTE] Even though this may be true, 4chan is by far not the pinnacle of the internet's shit.
[QUOTE=luke7dude;19251081] Linden Labs (maker of the game Second Life)[/QUOTE] And nothing of value was lost
I want someone to ddos /b/ :)
[QUOTE=mr_fj;19423455]I want someone to ddos /b/ :)[/QUOTE] i think that already happened before
Botnets arn't hard to make, its just the spreading. EDIT Obviously this guy must have been spreading for ages, or all his bots would of pinged out.
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