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Xanga drama...

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imported_Tomato

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What's a DDOS attack?

Due to continued and ongoing DDOS attacks, Xanga has now been down for over 24 hours.

This is the most concerted and determined of all the attacks we have experienced. Every time we bring the site back up, our attacker will find another avenue to renew their attack. I'm sure whoever is attacking us sees this all as a game, and is having a grand old time. I don't really get that mindset. Also, each and every one of these attacks is a felony charge.

These attacks have placed us in a classic Catch-22.


We want to share as many details as possible with our fellow Xangans
We don't want to give information that our attacker can use against us
We have chosen to break that conflict by upgrading both our hardware and our ISP. As many of you have pointed out, it is difficult to defend a Distributed Denial of Service attack. However, there are things that you can do to greatly increase your defenses - and rest assured, we are doing every one of them.

Many of you have asked for an ETA on bringing the site back up. Here's the deal - there's a chance we can get the site back up tonight, at our current ISP. If that doesn't work, then we will move the site first thing tomorrow morning and have it up by the afternoon.

We will find a way to make it up to all of you. In the meantime, our entire team is working around the clock to bring the site back up - better and stronger than ever.

Thanks for your patience,
The Xanga Team
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Oh no, what will all my Xanga-whore friends do in the meantime!? 😉 That sucks tho, Xanga is quite useful to a lot of people...and being Chinese, at least half of my friends probably have one. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: bootymac
DDOS = Distributed Denial of Service

It says right there 🙂
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Gah. 🙂 I meant a more detailed explanation of it... or does it just mean an attack that denies all users usage of the site?

I can't update mine. 🙁 Should've stuck with Livejournal...

Xanga = convenient way to keep my friends updated on life, etc.
 
Originally posted by: Dezign
Originally posted by: bootymac
DDOS = Distributed Denial of Service

It says right there 🙂
Click to expand...

Gah. 🙂 I meant a more detailed explanation of it... or does it just mean an attack that denies all users usage of the site?

I can't update mine. 🙁 Should've stuck with Livejournal...

Xanga = convenient way to keep my friends updated on life, etc.
Click to expand...

an attack that originates from many sources that interrupts the target's function

eg 1000 computers flooding 1 site slowing it down to a crawl
 
Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: Dezign
Originally posted by: bootymac
DDOS = Distributed Denial of Service

It says right there 🙂
Click to expand...

Gah. 🙂 I meant a more detailed explanation of it... or does it just mean an attack that denies all users usage of the site?

I can't update mine. 🙁 Should've stuck with Livejournal...

Xanga = convenient way to keep my friends updated on life, etc.
Click to expand...

an attack that originates from many sources that interrupts the target's function

eg 1000 computers flooding 1 site slowing it down to a crawl
Click to expand...

Got it, thank you. 🙂
 
My friend thought it was down because of the RPC exploit.
rolleye.gif
 
Originally posted by: Dezign
Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: Dezign
Originally posted by: bootymac
DDOS = Distributed Denial of Service

It says right there 🙂
Click to expand...

Gah. 🙂 I meant a more detailed explanation of it... or does it just mean an attack that denies all users usage of the site?

I can't update mine. 🙁 Should've stuck with Livejournal...

Xanga = convenient way to keep my friends updated on life, etc.
Click to expand...

an attack that originates from many sources that interrupts the target's function

eg 1000 computers flooding 1 site slowing it down to a crawl
Click to expand...

Got it, thank you. 🙂
Click to expand...


there is rarley any good defense against such attacks. The people who initiate them usually have much more experience then your average script kiddie.
 
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