Man, am I getting hammered for my latest post over at Computerworld about the DDoS launched on the Church of Scientology! I really can’t engage in a lot of back and forth over there since it is not my personal site, so I will do it over here. For all you people slapping me around […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CJ Kelly, a blogger at Computerworld, proclaimed yesterday that the Internet is safe from DDoS. She says: …maybe 5-8 years ago this was a possibility, but I don’t think it’s possible to do a large scale DDoS attack any more. Man, I am so happy to hear this news. You can’t fathom the relief at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s what they sent me: There was a SYNC FLOOD where we were only receiving ACK to our webserver, so our Rio Rey, which is our anti-DDOS box, did not reject, because it was seen as legitimate traffic. Due to the nature of the problem, we were required to block approximately half of the internet […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It looks like at least one server at bluehost.com was DDos’ed yesterday. Bluehost.com hosts my website, so I was unable to reach my site for most of the day. They said that the site was up, but they had to block large segments of the Internet from which the attack was coming, so I guess I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Politics can be fun, and it can be real ugly, and often both at the same time. And in this digital age, everyone has a chance to get involved, including script kiddies that have a political axe to grind. Go read the story here. But what got me about this whole deal was this quote […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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