DDoS Attack Confirmed

[Koenignovi]

RIGHT!?

First Blizzard was hit with a DDoS and now SE... wonder what's going on behind the scenes...

[craig_meredith2003]

Looks the start of a cyber war

[gamesmart]

RIGHT!?

First Blizzard was hit with a DDoS and now SE... wonder what's going on behind the scenes...

This is more interesting to watch than the chemistry class I'm sitting in right now. I'm also glad I'm Taiwanese and not mainland Chinese, this is borderline horrifying how much China is attacking the US at this point...

[Levis]

Since I dont see this anywhere on the thread, thought I would shed some light on the DDoS attack front.

http://map.ipviking.com/

Some scary shit going on atm.


ATTACK ORIGINS
COUNTRY
428 United States
362 China
67 Germany
49 South Korea
40 Mil/Gov
36 Ukraine
35 Russia
34 United Kingdom
33 Taiwan
27 Japan

ATTACK TARGETS
COUNTRY
1224 United States
8 Germany
5 Russia
2 Taiwan
1 Mil/Gov
1 Netherlands
1 Poland
1 Austria

That is crazy, attacks happen everyday, but How "above normal" would you rate this?

[xNuggetJack3dx]

it's soo funny how these kids buy booters and knock someone offline for a couple hours and think they are bad. Probably know nothing about it either, just pay $10 and off you go. too funny

[NoF2P]

this is borderline horrifying how much China is attacking the US at this point...

Anyone doing a DDoS attack has to spoof the origin IP address. There's no reason to believe it is from China.

[Rhindas]

Well honestly, China and others cyber attack the USA virtually daily, the common citizen just lives blissfully ignorant of it. And that's not tinfoil hat conspiracy. It's the world we live in now, and yeah, that's pretty scary (and should be).

[craig_meredith2003]

And the bad thing is with the way the utilities are set up in the U.S. it is predicted that is this is how our next big terrorist threat will come from.

[NoF2P]

China and others cyber attack the USA virtually daily

- so make it look like the attacks came from there and no one will bother to look any further. It would also be very easy to bounce the attack off a lot of PCs there because that's probably where most of the insecure Windows XP installations in the World are located.

[MarquisElmdore]

im guessing it's more the USA's fault right now. japan and china have no real use to shoot themselves in the foot by ddos'ing one of its biggest videogame company. same goes with the USA and we ALL know to wich extent the usa is willing to sink into obnoxiousness in order to look like a victim