Slashdot Mirror
Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow
Kobalt writes "A few news services are reporting that Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists."
Would this have anything to do with the 2 Russian airliners that crashed yesterday?
Marvin knew: "Think of a number, any number..."
Can someone seriously tell me what a "cyber terrorist" is? Is it someone who makes threats using electronic media? Is it someone who defaces web sites? Is it someone who shuts down the Internet? Are the latter two here really forms of terrorism? I don't really know of anyone who is "terrorized" by defaced web sites and high lag times, but I could be wrong.
Why bother.
SANS internet storm center has a note on this. They have seen increased scriptkiddie activity possibly leading up to this. Started on Sunday. Also read the note on the "drag-n-drop" exploit that is now seen in the wild and only requires you to move the scrollbar for it to install....several scanners are not picking up some of the new binaries being installed.
After seeing this story I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps I've begun to feel the initial symptoms of this attack... or if my ISP is just shit. (Betting on the latter)
As of a day or so ago, my bandwidth went down the drain. 3Mbit cable line was throttled down to 500Kbit, with massive speed test fluctuations. Plus, playing anything on HL servers I get a choke of around 100, meaning my bandwidth is saturated.
Anyone else having similar issues?
-------
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
Has anyone else noticed a lot of automated (presumably) login attempts for the users 'root', 'test' and 'guest' over SSH?
I never used to get this, and now I seem to get dozens of them every day.
I wonder if this is related to the so called "dooms-day" tomorrow.
I noticed a lot of my favourite overseas sites have been slow to load, while others, located in North America, load normally...
Just an impression though. I did not notice any more lag than usual in the online games I play
They aren't getting mine. As long as Nader qualifies in my state, I'm voting for him! If he doesn't, I guess I'll vote Bush, but it won't be because of terrorism (more like, I like him more than the other guy, who I've come to deeply despise... I resent the Democratic party for choosing him, when there were better choices in the running.... I will not be forced to choose who they force down my throat, just because "a vote for x is a vote for y" or whatever cutesy slogan the sheeple are spouting this week...)
(Posting anonymously because /. community consensus is against both Nader and Bush)
Not sure how this relates to any jihad, though.
When's the Republican National Convention? Maybe this is somehow related to CrimethInc's talk?
"The executive director of Dr.Web antivirus lab, Mikhail Bychinsky, quoted by Lenta.ru web agency said he had not heard of such an attack. "I do not believe in mass internet attacks because the main servers are defended, and Kaspersky Labs has been foretelling doomsday for a long time.""
Sounds like Kaspersky Labs is doing a bit of guerilla marketing on their own. "Subscribe to our pay sites and see when this 'attack' will take place !"
I wonder if a 21st century chicken little would have sold newsletters instead of running around the barnyard.
This is just another PNAC conspiracy. Every time Bush and/or Ashcroft scares people into thinking terrorists are about to wreak havoc, the good little sheeple promptly bend over and accept new legislation that further erodes civil liberties. Bill Gates being the "generous" GOP donor that he is, has now joined in. If they scare enough people into thinking that cyberterrorism is about to destroy the Internet, the good little sheeple will promptly bend over and accept Microsoft(tm) Patented(tm) DRM(tm) across everything.
Tired of FB/Google censorship? Visit UNCENSORED!
If you're thinking like that, can I at least remind you that you'll also be voting to maintain assholes like Ashcroft, Cheney and Rumsfeld in their respective offices?
I mean, there were at least five other guys in the primary I think would've been better candidates, but it really scares me to think that the wastes of orgasms presently holding the highest offices in our country might get to do it for another four years just because the mainstream democrats had to choose the fucking establishment candidate.
But then, since I live in one of the NASCAR idiot redneck states that will overwhelming go to Prince George, I think maybe I'll vote for Nader, too. Or maybe Cthulhu.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
No, dummy! ;)
If it had a normal distribution a significant portion of the population would be very close to average-- indistinguishably so, in fact. Technically you might be able to compute the actual average IQ as, for example, 112.872, and then probably about half the people would fall below this. That much you surmise correctly.
However, most of the people tested for IQ would measure so close to this average that we would not really notice a difference between those above and below that average. This is further compounded by the fact that IQ is not static for an individual, nor is there an infallible standard way to measure this. So not only do we have the bulk of the population very near the average, but we have a margin of error which makes it difficult to truly say which side of the average they actually fall to.
I keep forgetting that Slashdot is (apparently) a liberals-only club where just about every thread has to have politics brought into in unnecessarily.
Er, and every time that happens it turns into a flamewar. Tell me, if Slashdot is so full of liberals, where are all these conservatives coming from who argue with the liberals all the time?
It will mirror any site for you...
Just stick ".mirror.sytes.org" as the end of a domain name.
e.g. http://www.google.com.mirror.sytes.org/
I don't know about wealth distribution...I think you probably should have went with the light bulb example. For those of you who don't know this, this will be an interesting contribution to this OT discussion. :)
When you buy a light bulb, the packaging says, "average lifetime 1000 hours". Are you likely to get 1000 hours out of your light bulb, then? No, in fact it is very unlikely. Why's that?
As it happens, light bulb filaments are finicky creatures. They will virtually burn forever if there are no microscopic defects in them and the amount of air inside the bulb is below a certain amount. Slight imperfections in the filament cause hot spots, and those hot spots in the presence of even a slightly higher-than-normal amount of air burn several times hotter than the rest of the filament, significantly shortening the life time of the bulb. When a "freak" comes out that is nearly microscopically perfect, the heat is evenly distributed across the entire filament and the lifetime can be hundreds or thousands of times longer than the lowest 99%. So, by including these outliers in the averages that only make up 1%, but live potentially thousands of times longer, the bulb companies are able to say that the average lifespan of the bulb is 1000 hours when actually it's probably closer to 600 hours, and it's completely true.
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
https (SSL Certs) use MD5SUM's don't they? What if they're going to try and attack the cert root authorities.
Just a thought...
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
On its FAQ:
1.12. Did people in China really use the Google Mirror after China blocked Google?
Yes. We received numerous emails from web surfers in China thanking us for this service.
1.13. I heard that China also blocked other websites that used Google. Why didn't China block elgooG too?
We believe that elgooG survived the Great Firewall of China because the firewall operators thought that elgooG was a joke and not a fully functional version of Google.
http://alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/info/
!@#$!@ modern politics... I'm voting for FDR.
From the eWeek article:
Sounds like someone with less than half a clue got hold of a certain Slashdot article and is blowing it way out of proportion. Also from that same article:
I can imagine a few guys with AK-47s, sitting either in bombed out buildings or caves in the middle of a desert hacking away at encryption algorithms and figuring out ways to trounce "Internet servers". Sheesh, what do we need all of our mathematicians and security researchers for if these guys can just brush these mechanisms out of the way like theyre nothing?
Why bother.
Our net connection at work today was totally choked with a huge DoS attack.
:)
Considering i've not seen this happen for the 5 years i've been using that connection (previous job used my job as their ISP), and considering the fact we have multiple lines including 155mbit ATM's, it seems to be very very unusual timing for this article to come up.
OH NOES! TEH APPOCALYPES!!11
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
Whoa. The article says MD5 encryption was cracked. Is this true? I had only heard a rumour that a single collision had been found. And as for SHA-0... that's hardly making up the backbone of the Internet, is it?
Wait a minute... is MD5 even encryption at all? I thought it was a "message digest"...
1. Lots and lots of highly intelligent, highly read people around the world agree that Bush wasn't elected. He represents only the white, Christian Americans (evidently, from his policies and how often he spouts on about God). He is where he is because of his father, and has no right being President. Bin Laden is a wealthy finatic, true, but then so is Bush.
Bin Laden does feel repressed by past American governments, and the current one. He's not fighting George Bush, but the American system that allows a president to act like such an ass as The Bushes have been. First, it was the $50bn dollar cost to Saudi Arabia for their defense in Gulf War 1 (which led to the Americans staying there indefinitely, near Mecca, which is the holiest of sites to muslims the world over), which pissed a LOT of muslims off (which the US was expecting, and didn't care about).
Anyway, back on to the present. GWBush has killed tens of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. No-one had to go to war over there. The "coallition of the willing" invaded because they wanted to, and because of that greed, nearly 1,000 Americans have died, and all those civilians. For what? The country is even more dangerous than it was under Saddam, there are terrorist cells training in Iraq that were absolutely detested by Saddam and his Baathist regime.
Bush changed his reasoning for the conflict nearly every two weeks (yet, he's not a "flip-flopper") - first, WMD. Then, the capacity to produce WMDs (which includes any high-school chemistry lab, btw), then a regime change for "regional stability" (which is funny, as Iraq was one of the more stable, least aggressive states in the area). His reasoning doesn't stand up to scrutiny ONE BIT. It's not laughable, it's absolutely pathetic. I'm kind of embarassed anyone actually fell for it. It doesn't take Perry Mason to realise Bush is pulling this entire conflict (and the rest of his 4 years) out of his ass as he goes. He's scared to admit he's made a mistake, and he relies on the "like me or hate america" angle he can use against the more staunchly-patriotic American people.
I'm not denying OBL killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11. I'm saying Bush has killed nearly 3 times as many in the last 18 months. How can you stand up for Bush?
I do recognise there is a culture of hate. I also recognise who's perpetrating it. It's not the Arabs. They've been mistreated more by America than their own leaders. The Shia uprising after Gulf War 1? Where Bush Sr. encouraged them to rise up, then did nothing to help them. Great. Way to screw over a people.
And, now that you mention it, I do think giving $1bn a year to Israel to buy bulldozers to run over kids is hurting the peace process. For one nation to stubbornly pour so much money into a troubled region because of traditional ties is just ridiculous. Israel constructing an illegal wall down the country is also not helping one bit, either. Remember Berlin? Remember how happy everyone was when the wall came down? When will anyone learn.
I've probably read more books than you, seeing as TV Guide doesn't count.