WARNING CGN: 2nd Amendment Denal of Service Attack at MDShooters
First, let me say that I have been afraid of such an attack happening here at CGN. Please move this thread if necessary, but It is 2A related in that a 2A sister organization has come under attack just as they are leading up to a ralley on Feb. 6th at the MD Capital and testifying against new restrictive gun laws.
For the past 9 or 10 hours, the MDShooters website / 2A forum has been under a DDOS Attack, and is still ongoing. Here is a post by their Admin: Quote:
I would post a link to his post, but it's in the "Water Cooler" (like our Off Topic) but you have to be registered and have at least 50 posts before you have access to that forum. The main website is HERE Our enemies know no bounds. |
DDOS attacks are annoying, and can take down servers if you don't have the bandwidth/hardware (which is obviously expensive) to cope, but they are also temporary. It would be very unusual to see one lasting longer than 24 hours, outside of state-sponsored activity.
There are other ways to mitigate, but they require more technical skill and equipment than the average gun forum is going to have available. Best bet is to just wait it out, and report it to the FBI. |
Fuuny thing is when these wussy Denial of service attakers go to prison they are wimpy and cant deny service to Bubba
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Better question is who is behind it?
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We're Californians and if its one thing we do well its IT. We have some of the best IT porfessionals in the country in this state and no doubt some are on this board.
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Where are the US Cyber Command facilities located?
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I doubt that this is specifically targeted at 2A websites. The Washington Post and NYTimes have been under sustained attack for the last few weeks.
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Not sure why you think it's not targeted since they chose the domain to attack, and it was a relativly small attack - it clearly had an intent to cause harm.
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This level of DDOS is not used randomly, the ability to conduct such activity is a "valuable" resource. Some hacker group is either pissed off or was paid off.
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The attack was aimed at the URL and not the IP. It was a targeted attack and obviously meant to disrupt communications lading up to gun bill day.
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It was a very amatuer attempt if only 208 IPs behind it and those 208 IPs only got out 116K hits in 9 hours. That is actually piss poor. It's a script kiddie. There are much better and more effective ways to knock a site down, and knock it down hard, rather than just hitting a URL. Amateur indeed.
It was probably a member of those very forums who got angry for being flamed over something. |
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I wonder if one of those IP's was located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? :hide:
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The security weakness in the internet lies in the DNS servers.
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We got hit again today. We maxed out at 830 simultaneously attacking IPs. It lasted for a couple of hours and used 6.1GB of bandwidth, most of which was used in a very short period when it peaked. Luckily the DDoS proxy kept the actual site running smoothly. I expect the attacks to keep up until Maryland's big gun legislation day on Feb 6. These may not be huge attacks, but it's a small website and it was enough to bring it to it's knees. Lesson learned and I'm doing everything I can to mitigate the risk going forward.
- MDShooter.com Admin |
116K hits over a 9 hour period...yawn.
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Glad you've got a handle on it. Good luck on the 6th!
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The scariest thing is, Calguns is hoted by GeoVario
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