How does one DDOS multi-dollar company. Thats some expert skills there.
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How does one keep making new posts again on subject that is ready being discussed is couple other threads.
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no one is safe from a DDOS
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Doesn’t matter.
Can you drop que so that I can log in? I need to finish my M+ weekly for vault.
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I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some defcon-esque talks about how scarily easy it is.
Like…the technical answer? Or the hypothetical answer?
Either way its a problem that is hard to solve because think of it like this.
How would you stop traffic jams?
Well just add more lanes, ok but then what happens when those lanes fill up?
Just add more, but then those fill up too…
DDOs there are ways to identify them, and work to prevent them but at the same time, DDOS requests still have to be handled and at the end of the day are clocking up the network one way or another because at the end system (Blizzard) Still has to deny the request and or have it be blocked by something on their network.
Its pretty much an unescapable way to attack a company.
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Oh Darling, it is just flooding a game with information…in this case likely log on information…a billion fake accounts trying to log in and bog the system down. The battle net is a bottle neck and weak point for blizzard…so all their games are affected.
It is, its very very easy, its one of the simplest most effective attacks out there because its hard to deal with. Because how do you distinguish authentic, vs fake requests? You cant just blanket block it all because now you are blocking your good authentic request.
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:nerd face:
Basically the attacker has a virus that has infected many computers. They have control of the infected computers and use them to constantly attack a server. Usually people on infected computers have no idea they have a virus.
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Google search news for “DDOS”
Most of the results fall into 4 categories.
- Todays attacks on airport websites ( not airlines ) by a Russian group.
- Articles about successfully thwarting attacks.
- Articles about general information about DDoS attacks.
- Various articles about Blizzard getting DDoS’d every few weeks.
Looks like the first step is picking a soft target. How many other internet services do you use? Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instagram, twitter? How many of them do you see get taken off line a couple times a month?
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Illegally and with a lot of coordination. And maybe aluminum and a microwave.
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Blizzard doesn’t even have to directly be the target they just have to share the same backbone or path as someone that is being targeting. To go back to the traffic jam analogy lets say all the traffic clogging the road is heading to that concert venue, well that’s going to stop people from getting to all the other business that just happen to be on the same road. Lately it’s not even PC that are being hijacked for these attacks. It’s all those plug and play UDP smart devices being turned into a bot net.
TLDR, if you do not want anything eh compromised don’t connect to the internet 
Lots of people are.
It’s really not. Now understand I’m not saying this in a sarcastic or condescending tone but it just takes a little study/research into the cyber security world if you will or I guess “fundamentals of cyber security “ to learn DDOS is one of the most common forms of cyber attacks.
Banks even Microsoft themselves have been victims of ddos attacks in the past.
Good Morning, Mr. Hunt.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to DDOS a multidollar company. You will need to break into the internet and infect every computer in the world with a virus then launch an attack on the company. Should you fail, or be discovered, the agency will disavow any knowledge of this mission. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds.
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Seems yesterday there was many major airports getting DDoS too…LA airport was one of them …so it would seem Blizzard would fall into that DDoS traffic attack too along with many other sites…so it wasn’t really just an attack on Blizzard as it was attack on others too.
Pro Russian hackers taking credit for US Air port attacks.