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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.
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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. |
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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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Feinstein's great grandson/daughter (she sure looks that old).
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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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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 |
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You are correct, that would be nothing. I used the wrong term. It was 116k page views (attempted anyway) in less than an hour. My server is not configured for that kind of traffic. That is what I was getting from the proxy. 9 hours is how long I spent getting the attack under control and making the site accessible again (configuring the proxy, etc), not how long the attack lasted.
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Post flood and just accessing the homepage which is the most resource intensive.
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Glad you've got a handle on it. Good luck on the 6th!
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