MASSIVE DDOS ATTACKS ALL OVER U.S.

[Anubis]

well mabye this is why the network at my school went down last night and didnt come back till about 30 min ago

 

[Geekbabe]

My bank's online banking has been down all day, as has the automated telephone system

 

[Anubis]

oops

 

[Tripleshot]

This attack started much earlier than whaty has been reported. I think it started Friday morning. My sec logs show hits and port scans that early that are consistant with this outage. I was all day restarting my router and cable modem, thinking I must have a bad IP address. It was this attack on Charters and Qwest's DNS servers that kept giviing me massive packet loss and server errors.

I'm sure Charter and Qwest are victims, not perps. But security needs to be tightened up on the net, and spammers should be shot on sight.:|

 

[nagger]

I was without Interweb access for almost 12 hours due to the fact that my ISP is a Micro$oft Server Bugriddenware zone :|

After this DDOS attact they will still deploy their server using this crapware :|

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: nagger
I was without Interweb access for almost 12 hours due to the fact that my ISP is a Micro$oft Server Bugriddenware zone :|

After this DDOS attact they will still deploy their server using this crapware :|

UW has been fairly good, my internet went down today for about 30 seconds, but was quickly up. I'm guessing we have fairly good protection.

 

[ProviaFan]

My ISP was down for a while from late Friday night to shortly after noon today (GMT-5); I could dial in, but it would fail on verifying username and password.

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: charrison
Plus I think the hacker community has much less interest in making unix/open source products look bad.

I don't know about that one. I don't think that hackers (well, crackers really. Hacker is a different breed altogether) really have any Windows/Unix/Linux-bias. They just do whatever it takes to get their fame. For example, viruses aren't nearly as effective on Unix/Linux than on Windows, and that's because of the philosophy of the system (users only have limited rights).

Well this particular point is rapidly fading away. Virus's were particulary bad with win9x products, however nt/2k/xp product are not really affected by viruses. However the virus have been replaced with trojans. Trojans are just as bad, but running trojans is a failure of the user, not the system.

as nt/2k/xp aren't really affected by viruses i assume it is your recommendation not to use any resource hogging AV program?

I have not used any AV software in years.

Ok, then you're the kind of guy who allows viruses and trojans (and trojans are a form of virus, AV software will detect trojans as well) to spread easily...

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: charrison
Plus I think the hacker community has much less interest in making unix/open source products look bad.

I don't know about that one. I don't think that hackers (well, crackers really. Hacker is a different breed altogether) really have any Windows/Unix/Linux-bias. They just do whatever it takes to get their fame. For example, viruses aren't nearly as effective on Unix/Linux than on Windows, and that's because of the philosophy of the system (users only have limited rights).

Well this particular point is rapidly fading away. Virus's were particulary bad with win9x products, however nt/2k/xp product are not really affected by viruses. However the virus have been replaced with trojans. Trojans are just as bad, but running trojans is a failure of the user, not the system.

as nt/2k/xp aren't really affected by viruses i assume it is your recommendation not to use any resource hogging AV program?

I have not used any AV software in years.

Ok, then you're the kind of guy who allows viruses and trojans (and trojans are a form of virus, AV software will detect trojans as well) to spread easily...

Nope. I have not had any virus problems and I have not had any trojans(smart enough not to open executable files in email). I dont log onto to my machine with system privs unless I need to do so.
I stay current with security patches. I did get hit with code red because my firewall was misconfigured, IIS has since been replaced with apache on my machine.

 

[no0b]

N/M

didnt see the time stamp

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: charrison
Plus I think the hacker community has much less interest in making unix/open source products look bad.

I don't know about that one. I don't think that hackers (well, crackers really. Hacker is a different breed altogether) really have any Windows/Unix/Linux-bias. They just do whatever it takes to get their fame. For example, viruses aren't nearly as effective on Unix/Linux than on Windows, and that's because of the philosophy of the system (users only have limited rights).

Well this particular point is rapidly fading away. Virus's were particulary bad with win9x products, however nt/2k/xp product are not really affected by viruses. However the virus have been replaced with trojans. Trojans are just as bad, but running trojans is a failure of the user, not the system.

as nt/2k/xp aren't really affected by viruses i assume it is your recommendation not to use any resource hogging AV program?

I have not used any AV software in years.

Ok, then you're the kind of guy who allows viruses and trojans (and trojans are a form of virus, AV software will detect trojans as well) to spread easily...

Nope. I have not had any virus problems and I have not had any trojans(smart enough not to open executable files in email). I dont log onto to my machine with system privs unless I need to do so.
I stay current with security patches. I did get hit with code red because my firewall was misconfigured, IIS has since been replaced with apache on my machine.

I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: charrison
Plus I think the hacker community has much less interest in making unix/open source products look bad.

I don't know about that one. I don't think that hackers (well, crackers really. Hacker is a different breed altogether) really have any Windows/Unix/Linux-bias. They just do whatever it takes to get their fame. For example, viruses aren't nearly as effective on Unix/Linux than on Windows, and that's because of the philosophy of the system (users only have limited rights).

Well this particular point is rapidly fading away. Virus's were particulary bad with win9x products, however nt/2k/xp product are not really affected by viruses. However the virus have been replaced with trojans. Trojans are just as bad, but running trojans is a failure of the user, not the system.

as nt/2k/xp aren't really affected by viruses i assume it is your recommendation not to use any resource hogging AV program?

I have not used any AV software in years.

Ok, then you're the kind of guy who allows viruses and trojans (and trojans are a form of virus, AV software will detect trojans as well) to spread easily...

Nope. I have not had any virus problems and I have not had any trojans(smart enough not to open executable files in email). I dont log onto to my machine with system privs unless I need to do so.
I stay current with security patches. I did get hit with code red because my firewall was misconfigured, IIS has since been replaced with apache on my machine.

I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

SH?

Win2k.

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: charrison
Plus I think the hacker community has much less interest in making unix/open source products look bad.

I don't know about that one. I don't think that hackers (well, crackers really. Hacker is a different breed altogether) really have any Windows/Unix/Linux-bias. They just do whatever it takes to get their fame. For example, viruses aren't nearly as effective on Unix/Linux than on Windows, and that's because of the philosophy of the system (users only have limited rights).

Well this particular point is rapidly fading away. Virus's were particulary bad with win9x products, however nt/2k/xp product are not really affected by viruses. However the virus have been replaced with trojans. Trojans are just as bad, but running trojans is a failure of the user, not the system.

as nt/2k/xp aren't really affected by viruses i assume it is your recommendation not to use any resource hogging AV program?

I have not used any AV software in years.

Ok, then you're the kind of guy who allows viruses and trojans (and trojans are a form of virus, AV software will detect trojans as well) to spread easily...

Nope. I have not had any virus problems and I have not had any trojans(smart enough not to open executable files in email). I dont log onto to my machine with system privs unless I need to do so.
I stay current with security patches. I did get hit with code red because my firewall was misconfigured, IIS has since been replaced with apache on my machine.

I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

SH?

Win2k.

Sorry, i forgot the W... WSH...

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SnapIT
I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

SH?

Win2k.[/quote]

Sorry, i forgot the W... WSH...[/quote]


WSH?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT
I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

SH?

Win2k.

Sorry, i forgot the W... WSH...[/quote]


WSH?[/quote]

If you mean windows scripting host, I dont use outlook so it is not an issue.

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT
I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

SH?

Win2k.

Sorry, i forgot the W... WSH...

WSH?[/quote]

If you mean windows scripting host, I dont use outlook so it is not an issue.[/quote]

Yes i mean windows scripting host, you don't have to use outlook for it to be an issue though, at least restricting it is a smart thing to do...

Do you use white or black lists?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SnapIT
I assume you have disabled the SH too and don't download executables? Which OS do you run?

SH?

Win2k.

Sorry, i forgot the W... WSH...

WSH?

If you mean windows scripting host, I dont use outlook so it is not an issue.[/quote]

Yes i mean windows scripting host, you don't have to use outlook for it to be an issue though, at least restricting it is a smart thing to do...

Do you use white or black lists?[/quote]

What do you define as a white/black list?