• Steam down with DDOS threat by Phantom Squad
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Unintentional comedy is the best comedy! :goodjob:
[QUOTE=madmanmad;51301854]Well that fucking sucks. Is DDOS really regarded as hacking though?[/QUOTE] Oh my god, get over it with 'DDOS' and 'hack' Literally the only reason to complain is because you resent the conflation of DDOSers with eleet hackers who know things out of some respect for their shitty actions as being at least partially technically impressive. I don't fucking care.
what if it's dice all butthurt because cod iw was released
Might as well have pissed into the ocean, it would have get the same impact.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;51304623]Steam gets ddos'd and their servers handle it just fine while EA can't even run their login servers correctly without ddos[/QUOTE] Valve is not yet in 'money hungry' phase such as EA
[QUOTE=madmanmad;51301854]Well that fucking sucks. Is DDOS really regarded as hacking though?[/QUOTE] Well it's meant to be used as a sort of distraction for hackers to try penetrating without being noticed
[QUOTE=Lebofly;51306489]Well it's meant to be used as a sort of distraction for hackers to try penetrating without being noticed[/QUOTE] Not only that, sophisticated DDOS can crash security systems like firewall.
[QUOTE=Fourier;51306499]Not only that, sophisticated DDOS can crash security systems like firewall.[/QUOTE] Making the domain behind the firewall unavailable... your point? DDossing a firewall does nothing to compromise your firewall defences unless some idiot admin turns off the firewall thinking that will solve the problem... again its used as a distraction to get after the real issues. Often while something is being hacked a ddos attack is done on the same network to obfuscate certain hacking methods though... but again... thats distracting the administrators and their alarms. Its like robbing a bank by having a couple thousand people cram in the bank and start a flashmob dance
[QUOTE=Blizzerd;51306648]Making the domain behind the firewall unavailable... your point? DDossing a firewall does nothing to compromise your firewall defences unless some idiot admin turns off the firewall thinking that will solve the problem... again its used as a distraction to get after the real issues. Often while something is being hacked a ddos attack is done on the same network to obfuscate certain hacking methods though... but again... thats distracting the administrators and their alarms. Its like robbing a bank by having a couple thousand people cram in the bank and start a flashmob dance[/QUOTE] Distraction is real use too. Also yes, DDOS can overload certain software and router OS kills them because it eats too much RAM. I am pretty sure it's effective only on cheap routers though.
[QUOTE=Fourier;51306778]Distraction is real use too. Also yes, DDOS can overload certain software and router OS kills them because it eats too much RAM. I am pretty sure it's effective only on cheap routers though.[/QUOTE] But then whatever is behind them is no longer accessible... killing the firewall process on a windows server for example disconnects internet access. This is not windows defender or anything... and even that one i think does not just roll over and let anything through if crashed or killed. Its usually even worse for hardware type firewalls, where overloading them on one port makes them go in panic mode and shut down all ports, turning them in an immovable fortress wall.
[QUOTE=Fourier;51306778]Distraction is real use too. Also yes, DDOS can overload certain software and router OS kills them because it eats too much RAM. I am pretty sure it's effective only on cheap routers though.[/QUOTE] No industry level hardware firewall will be crippled by a DDoS
What if they were ddosing themselves all that time... that would explain why Steam was down (on their side).
oh boy [media]https://twitter.com/PhantomNations/status/794573822049587202[/media]
Ddossing 127.0.0.1 lel
[media]https://twitter.com/PhantomNations/status/794574615897141254[/media] Oh no, Direct TV? How else will I watch my favorite TV shows...
[QUOTE=Sgt. Khorn;51307170][media]https://twitter.com/PhantomNations/status/794574615897141254[/media] Oh no, Direct TV? How else will I watch my favorite TV shows...[/QUOTE] [t]http://i.imgur.com/TvmN82c.png[/t] then how can I visit the site
I don't understand did anything even happen?
[video]https://youtu.be/PQrmsqpI1ss[/video] This
What, so they dosed the site for 0.5 second?
[url]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/steampowered.com.html[/url] also says it was down "more than a week ago" pretty sure these guys don't actually have any bots
[IMG]https://files.catbox.moe/65tnwg.png[/IMG] I'm pretty sure he's just shitposting by now. I find it hard to believe this kid can even do anything, let alone take down steam.
Perhaps this would bother me if the holiday sale itself wasn't worse than any ddos can be.
[QUOTE=Ripper Roo;51573381]Perhaps this would bother me if the holiday sale itself wasn't worse than any ddos can be.[/QUOTE] Why bump this thread? The outage is unlikely to be DDOS at all considering everything is fucking dead, but if it IS ddos then its unlikely to be the same guys
Thought my internet was just shit, guess everyone's Steam is down?
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;51573404]Thought my internet was just shit, guess everyone's Steam is down?[/QUOTE] [url]https://steamstat.us/[/url] Make your own assumptions
Down for me too :v:
so I am not the only one who can't seem to login in online mode.
damn script kiddies
Yeah, dead here too. The web site was unstable last night, but now everything is completely dead.
[QUOTE=KlaseR;51573432]damn script kiddies[/QUOTE] No proof this is a DDOS by these guys. Valve could have fucked themselves over internally somehow
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