The Digital War

     This may sound like something straight out of War Games with a title like "Digital War" but this is real life. The digital world is always undergoing some sort of "war" like atmosphere. From government, major websites, to gaming the attacks are real and devastating to some. Most these attacks are carried out with DdoS attacks. A DDoS is short for "distributed denial-of-service"  these attacks can cause major shut downs of websites and cause much frustration to everyday users. But it can also bring "lulz" to others and that alone is reason enough for them to do it.

      I have embedded a real time "attack map" below for you all to check out. I will also be providing a link for you to check if maybe it's just your connection or if a site is down for everyone HERE. Alot of people don't realize they could be "attacking" a website inadvertently by being part of a "botnet". There computer becomes a slave to the master system and can be used to attack others without even knowing it these computers are called "Zombies". If you would like to learn more about Zombie computers make sure to check out Zonealarms post, "Is Your PC a Zombie?" and "8 Signs Your Pc Might Be A Zombie".

     Being as there is so many ways one could be infected it's hard to say if the security you have now could actually stop your computer from becoming one of the millions of Zombies out there in the wide world. I will also provide a site with 8 FREE botnet removal tools, mind you none of them are a garentee fix. Just because they claim you are safe and clean doesn't mean you are.. Make sure to get tested for aids.. I mean virus's, malware and so on and so forth regularly.

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Fire The Cannons

  My rage about people taking down small gaming private servers... Enjoy..


  So I've noticed a lot of people think they are oh so clever now a days with DDOS(ing) small servers or self hosted personal webpages with out some sort of protection. It makes me sad to be honest that these skiddies get away with such vandalism to the virtual world.

We now even have apps to allow phone users to join in on DDOS attacks.

    Now let me fill you in for those who don't know what LOIC is. It simply stands for LOW ORBIT ION CANNON. It's a nice open source stress tester (sourceforge.net/projects/loic/‎).

From Wiki:

Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application, written in C#. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, but was later released into the public domain,^[1] and now is hosted on several open source platforms.^[2][3]
The software has inspired the creation of an independent JavaScript version called JS LOIC, as well as LOIC-derived web version called Low Orbit Web Cannon. These enable a DoS from a web browser.^{[4]
LOIC performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target site by flooding the server with TCP or UDP packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary botnets.[5]}

For those of us who want to use it for good, it can help us see how much our websites or server can handle at once before it goes down.. But the evil inside all of man kind even buds its head online and the luls come next. But for those who attack on a larger scale they are usually using a Botnet! For more news about such large scale attacks like the latest to a Flarecloud customer head over to http://www.ddosattacks.net/. The latest large scale botnet hit an amazing 400gbs.

In this instance, attackers used NTP reflection to exploit a weakness in the UDP-based NTP, which connects to the Internet to synchronise clocks on machines. The hackers then spoofed the IP address of the target, and sent DNS queries to open DNS resolvers that will answer requests from anywhere. As a result, overwhelming levels of traffic were sent back to the NTP server. CloudFlare has a detailed blog post on NTP reflection attacks.

-DDOSATTACKS.NET

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