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Russian Banks Floored by Withering DDoS Attacks (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: At least five Russian banks weathered days-long DDoS attacks this week. A wave of assaults began on Tuesday afternoon and continued over the next two days. Victims including Sberbank and Alfabank both confirmed DDoS attacks on their online services, RT reports. The attacks were powered by compromised IoT devices, according to an unnamed Russian Central Bank official. Early indications are that the Mirai IoT botnet that disrupted DNS services for scores of high-profile websites might be behind the latest attacks but this remains unconfirmed. DDoS attacks on Russian banks are far from unprecedented. The last attack on this scale affected eight major banks in October 2015. David Kennerley, director of threat research at Webroot, commented: "These latest DDoS attacks are extremely similar to the recent ones targeted at Dyn last month, and really drives home the security issues of the Internet of Things. While attacks like these are complicated, there's still an element of basic security that could have reduced success -- password management.
Anybody have a script I can run to join in the fun?
When the US internet went down couple of weeks back lot of folks were blaming Russia. Criminals are criminals they have no national loyalties. Doubt CNN will report this and present a retraction
**Life is too short to be serious**
Damn Russkies stopping Clinton by attacking their own banks!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
CIA is going to announce that Russians were behind the attacks. In Soviet Russia.. yeah yeah.
A proper firewall probably could prevent intrusion into semi-secure devices. Why don't home networks have a firewall? Seems like a basic thing we should all have.
SUSE Hacked today
Poor SUSE :(
HA HA, err, wait, I meant to say, "That's terrible!"
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Isn't Alfabank the one that was engaging in all of that highly suspicious/mystery network traffic from an "unused" Trump server a couple of weeks ago?
Seems like a bit of a coincidence.
Any juicy conspiracy theories here?
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Whats it like to be on the receiving end for once?
From undisclosed Russian sources, they tracked back the origin of the attack to a private email server owned by Hillary Clinton.
Achille Talon
Hop!
ooops i said it out loud....
Look at us, we've been hacked just like we hacked America, err, I mean just how America was hacked.
and it casts doubt on their prior accusations and attempts at sullying Russia whenever something happens. It's clear that the U.S. is trying to build another boogey-man for the next couple of decades, and they've decided that Russia will be it. Don't buy any of the lies.
Is this the revenge which Obama promised for Putin helping Trump defeat Clinton with the Wikipedia leaks?
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
What is the chance that a DDoS attack could enable or mask a more serious attack?
For example could a DDoS situation increase the probability of making a fraudulent connection either to a server or from a client?
What is it about the Dems that suddenly, they are all into dynastic manipulation? If they want the first woman president, there are so many choices they have of women who made it in their own right - Pelosi, Pocahontas, to name just 2. Women who got where they are on their own, not via fathers or husbands. Ain't that what feminism is about?
Even if I wanted to see the country's first woman president, I wouldn't want such a unique person to be associated w/ cronyism or corruption, as Hilary would inevitably be. I'd rather see a woman who's gotten where she is, w/o such a rap sheet. I disagree w/ the Libs, but either Pelosi or Pocahontas would be an improvement, for both reasons stated above
Payback is a bitch.
Must be the DNC! See, we can use unfounded accusations in both directions!
Do you have ESP?
That said, I don't expect Michelle Obama to run. Chelsea might. I suspect her parents' influence may well drive her toward public office.
:)
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These decisions - on what kids eat for lunch - should be made individually by parents, or maybe by schools, but not by the first lady. There is something called individual responsibility. Or else why didn't Mrs Obama make it a point to make all obese people exercise to the point that they became trim, and less likely to suffer heart disease?
Perhaps this is what we are seeing?
You do realize that Hillary probably has better qualifications than Bill did don't you. She had better grades, was actually one of the lawyers on the watergate scandal, and was a senator, Sec of State, and also happened to be first lady. I'm not into dynasties much, but to infer she was unqualified is just not accurate. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Trumps tax returns and how is he going to blind trust his assets. Everyone was worried about the clinton charity foundation conflicts, what about the trump hotel right down the street from his new address? You know the one with the very expensive lease to the US Gov that probably will not be able to make the payments.
Hilary became a senator by virtue of her name recognition as First Lady: it's not that she did something tangible for NY that got voters to elect her over Rich Lazio. As Senator, her sole achievements were getting a few buildings named: the stuff about her getting funds for NY after 9/11 was just hooey. NYC had a high visibility due to the twin towers attack happening there, and there is no way it would have been ignored. Not to mention that both Giuliani and Patakis had great influence w/ President Bush.
Her role as one of the lawyers in Watergate is ironic given that her entire subsequent career has been scandal ridden - the Rose Law Firm, the Cattle Futures, Whitewater and then fast forward to the Clinton server and the Pay for Play at the Clinton Foundation. I daresay President Nixon didn't do an iota of what she did and almost got away w/.
The Trump Tax Returns is one of the red herrings peddled by the Dems from day 1, and is irrelevant in determining Trump's assets and liabilities. Which are all available in the 104 page FEC filings that he did when announcing for office. That is a complete summary of everything, and directly gives one the data that would have to be extrapolated from one's tax returns.
About the Trump organization, blind-trusting its assets is something that's next to impossible, given the high visibility of all of them. What would work better is one of Don/Ivanka/Eric taking over from him and running it, and there being an agreement w/ Trump on not discussing anything about the Trump organization w/ them. Like the Trump International Hotel - one of the kids would bat for the Trump organization, while daddy would bat for the guvmint. Or daddy can recuse himself, and Mike Pence can bat for the guvmint. Whatever works.
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