The Register has a well-written article on the post-DDoS scenario and analysis of what happened at BitBucket. BitBucket as you may know was a customer on the Amazon EC2 Cloud and it got DDoS’d big time. This article clearly spells out that it was actually Amazon that was at fault, by exposing their internal storage network to the outside world to be DDoS.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry’s 2010 re-election bid is being marred by his website constantly getting DDoS’d. Some say it was a database overload error, some say, DDoS. You be the judge, read the article here.
HYIP Monitor under DDoS
Sep 30
HYIP Monitor website FairestMonitor.com has been under DDoS attack for the past couple of days. HYIP websites get DDoS a lot, and there is a huge conspiracy theory that the people who DDoS HYIP websites are also then the same people who then come forward and offer protection from such DDoS attacks.
Actinic a small online shopping cart/e-commerce software vendor is currently under a DDoS as per the posting on their forums. You can read more about this attack here.
With the Australian Censorship law – dividing the Aussies, electronic civil disobedience (I just love this phrase) got together for a little DDoS showdown. Read more about it here.
A small writing niche blog got hit by a Joe Job DDoS attack (essentially a spam attack). Read more here.
Malaysia Today is an independent website, I am presuming hosted outside of Malaysia – and is very vocal about the government, and all that is going around the government. Well it seems they stepped on a raw nerve… Malaysia Today has alledged that they are being DDoS by the Government of Malaysia. That’s a first for me.
More can be read on this in the following two articles:
Here is a great blog covering the Russian Business Network …aka RBN. RBN is notorious for botnet rentals, denial of service attacks, phishing, spamming, etc.
The blog is a very detailed, thorough and well laid out blog (don’t get to see this very often). Hats off to the blog owner for excellent coverage.
A nice article on how the Web today is very different inherently from the web 10 years ago. Especially with all the vulnerabilities, SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting attacks going on, which can result in machines being compromised for DDoS.
The reputed Huffington Post is reporting that GMail may have suffered a DDoS attack. More on this here.