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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?
Damn Russkies stopping Clinton by attacking their own banks!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
I wonder if the west IS responsible for this, some sort of retaliatory measure, or if this is some internal issue in Russia where the banks are being targeted.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
no, certain dns servers did not work, others did. i was never down and i live and work in dc. the popular press reported it incorrectly.
nothing to see here - move along
Believe it or not there are many hacking groups out there, and they have different agendas.
This attack, along with the Liberia, Dyn and Krebs on Security attacks, are being blamed on the Mirai botnet. To my knowledge no one reputable has linked Mirai with Russia, at least not the Russian government. Mirai's targets seem to be random, like the developers are simply demonstrating their capabilities. So far there doesn't seem to be a political agenda.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
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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Well, I wouldn't use those words because I'm not an asshole.
But, yes, she was a horrible candidate. And Trump, even worse in his own right, was a master at flaming every piece of smoke coming out of her to make fire.
So 7M dems stayed home because they didn't like their own candidate. And the same number of GOPs voted ('12 vs '16) because they didn't like the other candidate.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Is this the revenge which Obama promised for Putin helping Trump defeat Clinton with the Wikipedia leaks?
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
The bad part is that there is news that they are now grooming Chelsea to run for office
I would not be surprised if there were evidence of that, but kindly provide some.
I am aware that she has a PhD in International Relations and she is working at the Clinton Global Initiative. That might be a good background for a post in foreign affairs, but I'd have to see more domestic affairs on her résumé before I believed she was going to run for office.
and Obama's wife is acting all political, too.
Perhaps, but would she run for office? Most likely not.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.
Trump would never eat in the food court, come on now.
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