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397 sats \ 0 replies \ @thepenguinva 20 May 2023 freebie
I'm glad it's over... I just found this place.
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319 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 20 May 2023
It seemed mostly like someone just having a laugh.
Maybe they'll come here and tell us?
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10.8k sats \ 3 replies \ @ssuutxanu 20 May 2023 freebie
DDoSer on the phone.
Yes, you're absolutely right - it was done for fun. I'm testing a new method for DDoSing Amazon targeted servers, and stacker.news is the right place for such testing.
I apologize if I did any harm :c
I read stacker.news regularly myself and like lightning news
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849 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 20 May 2023
No real harm. It's nice to be be aware of these things should unfriendly attacks come. I've never been DDoS'd so it was kind of educational for me as well.
Do you have any recommendations for things we should do to prevent these kinds of attacks?
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162 sats \ 0 replies \ @031ef7d322 20 May 2023
Cloudflare, AWS Shield
Avoid expensive operations (db or node hits) from unauthenticated endpoints.
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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @tbonesteaks 21 May 2023
DDoS-ed, confessed, got paid
OR
didn’t DDoS, lied, got paid
glad to see bitcoin is alive and well for criminals and/or liars. JK JK. this is fun, wild stuff.
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191 sats \ 0 replies \ @At 20 May 2023 freebie
Hmm, I wonder what party would have an interest in doing this... I don't think they would've managed to dp anything other than keep it down for a little bit.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @1satis1sat 20 May 2023
The most obvious awnser is why not? DDOS is not that hard to pull off, anyone can do it if they are willing to throw some money away.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 20 May 2023
Can a system like Cloudflare or AWS shield be decentralized?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @031ef7d322 20 May 2023
Decentralized? No… How do you imagine that would look?
You can DIY something w/HAproxy or similar, but it won’t have a chance of mitigating a large DDoS attack.
This is one of those areas where you probably need to work in big tech to get hands on experience with the state of the art, because the resource requirements are too large for a small operation where DDoS mitigation isn’t the core product.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 21 May 2023
My first weekend working for SN and site gets taken down, lol
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