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Taking on an Online Extortionist
An anonymous reader writes "When an online exortionist comes a knocking, threatining a DDoS, do you pay or fight? For many, paying may seem like a sensible option when compared to going out of buisness. CSO Magazine has a riveting article about how an online gambling site and a DDoS specialist teamed up to take on such an extortionist. When everybody else was rolling over and paying, this company risked its very existence to fight back. From the article: '"The attack went to 1.5Gb, with bursts up to 3Gb. It wasn't targeted at one thing. It was going to routers, DNS servers, mail servers, websites. It was like a battlefield, where there's an explosion over here, then over there, then it's quiet, then another explosion somewhere else," says Lyon. "They threw everything they had at us. I was just in shock."'"
"We will fight them in the CAT5, on the routers, in the packets. We will never surrender"
:)
Or however he said it
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.
Don't respond. They'll think you didn't see their email.
"They threw everything they had at us. I was just in shock."
I guess that includes getting a mention on Slashdot?
Troc
Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
Seems kinda brutal to hit them with another DDOS.
Slashdot's name? When my compiler sees
Or maybe it was planned this way. Nothing says offline like a link from slashdot.
Uhm, to take away the bots, you would have to cut them at the root. And the root is a certain mega-corporation that's a bit difficult to be rooted out.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
First time those 2 go hand in hand....
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Is anyone else revelling in the hilarious irony that the site about surviving a DDoS attack has been Slashdotted? Or is that just me?
An online wallet inspector demanded I send him my billfold posthaste. I never got it back. Be forewarned.
Find out where they live and call their mom.
Extorting a gambling site? That strikes me as a LLM (life limiting move, c.f. career limiting move).
Many gambling sites still have connections to, shall we say, respectible businessmen of the Italian or Asian pursuasion, who are used to handling such matters extra-legally.
You might just wake up one day with your computer's monitor (cables severed with an ax) in bed with you.
Or Guido and Nunzio standing over you, giving you tips on the finer points of extortion while they wait for the concrete to set.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Wormholes.
What about the interns?
"How CSO Online took on Slashdot... and LOST."
I'm glad that somebody's standing up to the jerk though... people who do stuff like that are wasting perfectly good matter.
Windows isn't the answer... it's the question. NO is the answer!
Wow, you all carry Glock 19's? Damn.. you are all badasses! ISP admins must be a tough crowd.
How many times have you pointed them at a human?
Am i the only one who was sitting on the edge of my seat while reading the battlefield analogy? This is unexplored movie territory with some great potentiol. "Behind CAT5 Lines"
Oh! That would explain all the dupe articles we see!
That's the trick. Most people would say "bigger servers" and "bigger bandwidth". But I know the real reason. Notice how you get 'Service Unavailable'? Every so often? I found that if more than 50 people are accessing Slashdot at the same time, that their database cannot handle it. In reality, this site is hosted on an Amiga. Only 50 users you say? That can't be.... just look at my User ID!
All the 813,621 users before you don't really exist. These messages are randomly generated geek buzzwords. "Users" are given personalities, ranging from "Linux lover" to "Windows loser", from "I'm just a troll" to "IAARS", from "Funny" to "I take myself serious, but no one else does".
Those "personalities" alter the pre-populated phrase list according to topic (actually, I am not even sure the topic matters). Think of it as an advanced Turing simulation.
I was fooled for my first three months. Then, I saw the predictable responses, and realized that there was no actual intellegence here. Just the occassional real life person who wanders in and is fooled for a while. The auto-misspell feature was a nice addition, I have to admit.
Want proof? Pick a user id. Peruse messge list. Notice the lack of variety? Notice the lack of real meaning behind each message? And when there is real content, try browsing earlier messages. You will find phrases ripped verbatim from an earlier post.
Of course, you may also be a bot. CommanderTaco is always making tweaks to the message generation algorithm (though his posts, too, are mostly generated by code). I will have to peruse your message history when I am done posting here.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Okay, I first read that as "Online Exorcist." I'm thinking, how does THAT work? TO: Satan@littlegirlshead.com
From: Father Mayai (Yes, you may!)
Subject: Notice of Eviction
They share one.
If only there was some kind of online medium for news articles where answers to questions like these could be answered!
... without concern for U.S. bookmaking laws
Oh wait...
You can send us $40K by Western Union [and] your site will be protected
Richardson runs BetCris.com, an online wagering site, one of hundreds of sites ensconced in Costa Rica that take bets from Americans
Lyon says, "I could have left it alone, but I had gotten attached, and I started investigating. I came up with some interesting techniques to trace back the attacks." He turned over his work to several law enforcement agencies, but he never heard about it again.
"Um, hello - FBI? Hi. Yes I run a website gambling business offshore in Costa Rica and I just got threated by someone who says they will shut me down unless I wire fourty thousand via Western Union to someone in Belarus who *click* Hello?"
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Including, apparently, a good slashdotting.
Hey, leave me out of this! I can't even get my own articles accepted.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Because, sometimes that Windows box crashes one time to many...
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God knows your /. ID is low enough that it might be true.
... dangerous. :)
Watch it with the age slurs there, sonny. That could get
Yes, that's what my Fairbairn-Applegate Covert folder is for. But my daddy always told me, never bring a knife to a gun fight. Well, I choose to improve upon his wisdom by having both.
:)
In actual fact, my Batman utility belt is getting kinda crowded. Ipaq 5500, Nokia 6620, Motorola HS850, Knife, and Gun. I think I need a pair of suspenders. (Does Jinx sell geek-spenders?) Fortunately for me, I have a larger circumference than the average geek, which gives me more belt real-estate. I don't know how you twiggy types carry all of your gadgets..
So,
I'm trying to read the article and that is giving me another "business idea".
"Give me $10 000 or I'll submit an article to Slashdot with a link to your web site".
Distributed Denial of Service!
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
We were later tossed in jail for threatening with a weapon
Actually, In Nevada, it's called "brandishing".
Take a fucking joke people, jeez. Yes, the story is true. Yes, we all carry Glocks. No, we didn't point them at anyone. Just snatching the fucker out of his perceived anonymity was enough. (hint to the AC's?)
When asked why we carried, our stock response was "We take Network Security VERY seriously." And follow it up with (in my best Monty Python) "I don't like SPAM!".
Everything that bastard submits gets accepted! You could submit "How scientists cracked the light speed barrier" and get rejected and then he comes along behind you with "Anatomy of a cheez doodle" and gets accepted! God I hate him! Hate hate hate! Yup...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I'm starting a company much like that myself. Nice network you've got here, hate to see anything happen to it. I can protect it for you... for a price.
...is submitting a story to /. the last revenge of the DDOS extortioner?
All's true that is mistrusted
Silly question.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
... or does this sound like an opening line for a soft-core porn flick?
"Lyon was 23 and looked at least that young. His blond hair offset a tan, handsome face. Allec says Lyon looked like he had given up a day of surfing to swing by and help out."
8==8 Bones 8==8
Oh cool, this must be one of those meta-tin-hat /.-bots I heard Taco was developing! Sowing seeds of dissent and conspiracy for its own sake.
What a great entry-level comment to test with too! By publicly 'outing' the very system it is a part of no one will take this position as serious anymore and simply decry those who suggest it a yet another foil-hatter, while simultaneously freeing this chat-bot of being accused as one. After all if it were a bot, why would it point out all its own secrets?
Bravo Taco, you are to be commended for this nasty little piece of deception. But of course, if 822545 is a bot, then how can I prove that I am not one? Well, quite easily, you see der lichentttttt ^H^H^H^H
WARNING -- Unhandled parsing error at 0x0E346B22: Core meta-logic rebuttle memory dump in progress! Rebooting comment generation APU at segment data 2501 -- END
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
It seems a good idea to sit in Eastern Europea
And mail out missives with a threat
"We know that you have gold, and if I may be so bold
If you send me some I will not be a threat"
And that is called running protection
And the scum who demand it defend
That you only have to pay them protection
And your enterprise won't have to end.
It is a real temptation to avoid a confrontation
And pay off the bottom sucking filth
Then the business you created won't be immolated
By the bandwidth sucking zombies and their ilk
And that is called paying protection
But after you've paid up today
They'll come calling for more protection
There will never be an end to what you pay
It's a shame to whimper quietly and meet with their demand
To keep the money flowing fast and free
So when they do demand the little money in your hand
I would suggest that you repeat slowly after me.
"We never pay any scum protection
I am no Rudyard Kipling, but I think this captures the essence of itNo matter how hard they may lean
For tomorrow you'll be back threatening to hack
Using any zombies you can glean "
welcome to the internet! There are many new and exciting technologies which you should look in to now that you are here!
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
In the context of this article, the correct term is slashdos'ed
Thank you
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.