Massive Distributed Denial of Service Attack! Right now!

[Maxvla]

We are monitoring massive Distributed Denial of Service attacks all over the U.S. tonight starting at around 11:30 PM CST. As many as 5 of the 13 root nameserver have been down, up to 10 with massive packet loss (xx%)
this is affecting some sites and not some... to name a few... Anandtech and Clubsi are down. most of the other sites i frequent are fine however.

http://www.internethealthreport.com/ <--- shows you the effect on the bigtime servers and networks.

just so you know why some of your sites aren't working. and probably wont be working for at least a few hours.

more detailed info: http://forums.military.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=78919038&f=409192893&m=4551982416

[ChrisCantSkate]

yeah... www.ucf.edu was down. i needed to find the page with all the delivery places at 3am... but couldnt

[Addict]

Fun stuff eh?

Yeah I've known about the worm, but I didn't realize how many others didn't.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/slowinternet.html

Thanks to all the companies who don't pay attention. We appreciate your unwanted packets!

[ebpda9]

he he he i went to advance auto parts today and they couldn't do a damn thing. all their systems were down ;(

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

That sucks. If people/companies would keep up to date with their security, some of these problems would be kept to a minimum.

[blind34_1]

thats the whole point to attacks similar to this. to improve the state of security. Wanna bet how many companies will actually improve their systems? A big ZERO! They'll just go cry to the government saying that "those evil malicious h4x0rs took down our system! go arrest them! wah!!" (and while they're doing that, the real criminals steal their sensitive data through the same hole.)

sorry, just ranting.

[Addict]

Originally posted by blind34_1
thats the whole point to attacks similar to this. to improve the state of security. Wanna bet how many companies will actually improve their systems? A big ZERO! They'll just go cry to the government saying that "those evil malicious h4x0rs took down our system! go arrest them! wah!!" (and while they're doing that, the real criminals steal their sensitive data through the same hole.)

sorry, just ranting.

Yup. I agree.