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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.
I have one (Linux box, and I have several devices that are not allowed Internet connectivity in either direction), but there is the thing: Consumer firewalls are set to default-allow, because otherwise consumers complain why their shiny new toys do not work. In other words, consumer-firewalls are useless without a competent administrator and they basically never have one. Enterprise firewalls are default-deny and, guess what, they universally have administrators, because without them you cannot be used in a meaningful way.
Hence while your question is entirely fine, the answer is "because things are massively screwed up". Now, if we required people to have proven skills in securing a network before buying server devices and connecting them to said networks, (like, say, we require people to have some formal qualification before operating a car and insurance in addition), things would look differently.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
HA HA, err, wait, I meant to say, "That's terrible!"
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Actually, I'm waiting for FSB to say that the NSA was behind the attack to take revenge for putting them under Trump
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?
Look at us, we've been hacked just like we hacked America, err, I mean just how America was hacked.
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 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's not all that difficult to build up. And I'd say that both Pelosi and Warren have good name recognition in Liberal circles
I honestly doubt it. Now that it is clear having the last name "Clinton" means the alt-right will literally accuse you of anything up to and including assassinations and mass murder.
No, if the Dems do anything at this point, they'll find a Liberal version of Donald Trump, so we're probably talking about a younger version of Bernie Sanders. After all, other than the hatred of climate change, gays and women who control the activity of their uterus, there now appears to be little that is different between the Alt-right and the traditional US far left. Both believe in borrowing trillions to spend on infrastructure, in an almost Communist fervor for starting up idled factories for no other reason than to provide jobs for people whose skills are a decade or more out of date.
Sanity has left US politics. While I expect for the next couple of years, Congress will try to check Trump's excesses, but after 2018, when both parties are increasingly dominated by their fringes and by entryists from beyond the fringes, you'll see the kind of utter madness that tossing out the "elites" (read: people who actually understand what government is) and replacing them with ideological fruitcakes will produce.
The ship will obviously right itself in 8-10 years, once the full social, economic and environmental effects of trying to make-believe it's 1950 again become painfully clear, but by that point, it's likely the rest of the planet will have moved on, and the US, while still the dominant power, really will have been critically weakened.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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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.
I wouldn't count on the US surviving this one. Expect china will be the dominant power by 2020. Pity, but the US will be britain before I die. I'd hoped to miss nero fiddle while rome burns. But nero showed up sooner then I expected.