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ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sucky-reality dept.

flyhmstr writes "According to a report on ISPReview Cloud Nine have been forced off line and out of business thanks to the actions of crackers deciding to go play with some DoS tools." It's only getting worse. The kids are getting more and more aggressive as time goes on and it gets easier and easier to launch a large scale DoS. As any techie knows, fixing the problem is far easier said then done... but as a frequent recipient of the sharp end of the DoS stick, I sure wish it wasn't an issue.

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  1. Re:Spellcheck... by AssNose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think spellcheck would have caught that one; it is a grammar error. It did make me read that sentence a couple of times though...

  2. Got to be something more to this than is reported by johnburton · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    First they go offline for days with no information available about why. Then they say they are coming back on line after a "hack" but that they will have to put their prices up. Finally they just appear to just give up and shut down.

    It all seems very strange to me.

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  3. Wasn't Cloud9... by Myself · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Didn't they originally host jegelhof's AOLsucks page?

    Damn, one of our own.

  4. Re:I wonder why? by tester13 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    maybe you could write a script that would "pretend" to dos other sites.

    Once executed it could set up a path to nowhere on the script users computer (say for like twenty minutes). That would allow the "hacker" to think they had dossed someone, when actually they would only deny themselves service.

    Could this work?