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Cluster__
United States328 Posts
On August 27 2014 10:24 Orcasgt24 wrote: You would think a billion dollar internet based company would know how to protect themselves from that kind of common attack. Even Facebook gets DDoS'd sometimes... | ||
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hzflank
United Kingdom2991 Posts
On August 27 2014 11:00 Orcasgt24 wrote: It's very possible to mitigate the damage of them using security providers like Black Lotus or Prolexic. As a side note. It is kind of weird that these huge companies aren't trying to invent ways to make sure they are immune to ddosing. Or maybe they are and have been unsuccessful. I am sure that they are trying to protect against it, but it requires a great deal of infrastructure to do so. Prolexic is owned by Akamai, so they have the capacity to dedicate a lot of servers and bandwidth to mitigate ddos. I am no expert, but to completely solve the problem we might need to switch over to different network protocols, which is not a realistic option at the moment. | ||
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saddaromma
1129 Posts
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
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LSB
United States5171 Posts
On August 27 2014 13:34 rebuffering wrote: lol is DDoS-ing get easier or what? These Lizard Squad ass holes have been fucking DDoS-ing everything in the passed week. Anyone can DDOS, all you need to do is buy a botnet and figure out what to shoot. It's quite simple if you are willing to front the money and the risk of getting FBIed EDIT: Heck you can DDOS any small site, just google LOIC and point it at something. It was used for the 4chan raids EDIT2: + Show Spoiler + I am not by any means encouraging you to preform illegal actions. This post is only for informational, satirical, and anecdotal purposes. Only a fool would take this information at face value and act on it. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On August 26 2014 18:48 dabom88 wrote: 2. Okay, you got me there. Nobody likes it when sudden changes are made overnight without warning. The Twitch rolling out their new VOD program with Audible Magic is a prime example. Which is why I'm not all to happy about Amazon being the buyer. At first after the buying of Comixology, it looked like everything was going to carry on as things used to be and BAAM they just remove IAP for iOS like a thunder from a clear blue sky. Who knows what might happen to Twitch now. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + fuck uthermal how did you lose that last set | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
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BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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nam nam
Sweden4672 Posts
On August 27 2014 13:34 rebuffering wrote: lol is DDoS-ing get easier or what? These Lizard Squad ass holes have been fucking DDoS-ing everything in the passed week. It probably is, but at the same time I've seen normal service/internet/other problem being blamed on ddos attacks a lot lately. It just seems like the go to excuse whenever something doesn't work and it's often not the case. But it does strengthen that perception. I've seen a stream go down with the streamer saying essentially "it's just my internet" and then 10 minutes later it's a truth in chat that the stream got shut down by ddos. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On August 26 2014 05:36 Jett.Jack.Alvir wrote: The problem with exclusivity is that it can sometimes kill a product. As Twitch proved when Own3d shut down, not necessairly | ||
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aksfjh
United States4853 Posts
On August 28 2014 02:51 nam nam wrote: It probably is, but at the same time I've seen normal service/internet/other problem being blamed on ddos attacks a lot lately. It just seems like the go to excuse whenever something doesn't work and it's often not the case. But it does strengthen that perception. I've seen a stream go down with the streamer saying essentially "it's just my internet" and then 10 minutes later it's a truth in chat that the stream got shut down by ddos. "DDoS" is actually somewhat rare, while standard "DoS" is more common. Simply flooding a connection from a small amount of computers (sometimes just with one computer) is incredibly easy to do and will knock down standard home equipment and non-maintained enterprise equipment. The kind of DDoS likely being deployed by Lizard Squad is relatively rare because it isn't free, even for the highly skilled. And of course, everybody and their mom wants to seem like they know something so they jump on the DDoS bandwagon. | ||
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Roggay
Switzerland6320 Posts
On August 31 2014 02:08 aksfjh wrote: "DDoS" is actually somewhat rare, while standard "DoS" is more common. Simply flooding a connection from a small amount of computers (sometimes just with one computer) is incredibly easy to do and will knock down standard home equipment and non-maintained enterprise equipment. The kind of DDoS likely being deployed by Lizard Squad is relatively rare because it isn't free, even for the highly skilled. And of course, everybody and their mom wants to seem like they know something so they jump on the DDoS bandwagon. It may not be free, but it is still really easy to pull off (DDoS that is). But yes you need to rent a botnet. | ||
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aksfjh
United States4853 Posts
On August 31 2014 02:21 Roggay wrote: It may not be free, but it is still really easy to pull off (DDoS that is). But yes you need to rent a botnet. Never said it wasn't easy.  It's really hard to create the botnet and it's a waste to use a botnet like that, which makes it expensive, but not hard. | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
On August 31 2014 02:08 aksfjh wrote: "DDoS" is actually somewhat rare, while standard "DoS" is more common. For a while I'd forgotten about what the first "D" in "DDoS" stood for, and wondered why it was even there. Then I read this line and magically remembered that it means "distributed" (probably because I haven't seen people distinguish between them for a long time...) | ||
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Cluster__
United States328 Posts
http://techcrunch.com/video/whats-next-for-twitch-from-emmett-shear-and-kevin-lin-2/518405957/ | ||
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