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Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 3:31 pm
by Chris Vogel
Mozillazine article
I was wanting to download some Mozilla add-ons, but I wasn't able to get into
Mozdev. Now I know why.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9180
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 4:27 pm
by Red Squirrel
That's madning. What I find funny about DoS attacks is that they last so long. I used to get many on my server but I'd block the IPs it came from. But in my case it all came from about 2 IPs, some are millions of IPs so you can't do much, specially if it's not your own server, which from the article, I don't think it is.
I don't know why people do these things
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9182
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 8:12 pm
by manadren_it
darn script kiddies. DDoS is turning into some kind of sadistic fad or something. They seem to be just about everywhere. Particualrly with torrent sites for some reason. Those sites go down just about daily, and get dropped from their hosts every other week.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9202
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 8:52 pm
by Red Squirrel
Yeah, DDos is becoming bad. I guess it's because it's so easy to do and yet is so damaging, but it's a temporarly damage, as rebooting the server to kill all the processes should work, once the attacks have stopped. But usually it's on for a long time so they can't do much while all these connections are coming.
I made the computer downstairs do a BSOD by DoSing apache one night as I was bored.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9218
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 10:06 pm
by wldkos
I have seemed to notice that hacking got "big" again. i thought it was cool when the linux community teamed up to take down SCO's website, but now it's just plain old.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9221
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 4:43 pm
by Chris Vogel
Update 
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9239
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:05 pm
by Red Squirrel
That's something new "new server". I had no idea a DDoS could damage a server?!? I thought it was only sending so many requests that it would crash, but never realized it could do hardware damage!
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9240
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:06 pm
by Chris Vogel
Red Squirrel wrote: That's something new "new server". I had no idea a DDoS could damage a server?!? I thought it was only sending so many requests that it would crash, but never realized it could do hardware damage!
The new server has nothing to do with the attacks.
They were planning to buy a new one before the attacks and had just raised enough money.
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9241
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:58 pm
by Red Squirrel
Oh I see...
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9242
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 12:42 pm
by Chris Vogel
It's back up!
Full service hasn't been restored yet though. Since they have a newer OS and a faster server now, maybe it'll be faster!
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9267
Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:23 pm
by Red Squirrel
Cool!
Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1052, old post ID:9268