welp another ddos...

[Polybius]

Well, for such people denying an access to their pixelated alteregos is a much more realistic problem than actually going out in the world and seeing the shit that goes on there.

May not be realistic for the people playing, but it sure as hell is for the video game publishers.

[Mlz]

cute.

You should seek professional help with your delusions and paranoia.

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May not be realistic for the people playing, but it sure as hell is for the video game publishers.

And that I understand, from the company's perspective.

[Charge me Doctor]

It's because of the nature of DDoS attacks. They aren't really hacks at all. From Blizz's servers PoV they are just getting an insane amount of connections at once. It's as it Billions upon Billions of people all connected to them at the EXACT same instant. It's basically just a brute-force attack and nothing to special at all. People who DDoS are literally the lowest on the food-chain of cyber warfare as it isn't even a hack.

So unless they had it check EVERY connection ever (which would slow down normal connections from a day-to-day basis) they can't really prevent a DDoS. Websites can because it checks when you connect, but once you load up your browser and the site stop communicating until you do something. So they can check for a DDoS before you load the site then you're good. But with a service like Battle.net that is constantly sending and recieving, to check for a DDoS every time information is exchanged would severely hinder the speed of communication, likely making the games as laggy as if they WERE being DDoSed.

AFAIK it's easier to ddos ISP than a service itself, because often services are ready for this sort of attack, while ISP just lies down and dies. Some of our (at work) services use USA and GB ISPs and they were down as well, so we had to switch everything to russian ISPs for now

[FelPlague]

gotcha. not to be argumentative (more inquisitive) are IT security folks not able to predict a certain amount of this? i know you cant stop it all. it just seems kinda prevalent the last year or so.

issue is when they make something to count ddosing, they change their bots around that... so yeah... its a race of, who can adapt first...

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I personally believe this Poodle bullshit is more than a bunch of kids taking credit for issues that game companies are causing on their own, and instead of acually telling players hey we messed up they put blame on some hacker group. Naturally Poodle will take the blame as that's all these group want is to be notice, same as a terrorist Blizzard last month was performing a bunch of tests on the servers, cows , ghosts, and now a sudden DDos attack. It may sound like a conspiracy idea but I believe these game developers have either created this hacker group or tells them a head that something will happen, so all the blame can be on them and not the developers themselves.

except when they make posts BEFORE the "ddos's" happen.. .for example their post said "blizzard is next" 5 minutes later the blizz servers start lagging...

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also mods, feel free to close if you want, now that the DDos is over, and we have a few explinations here of how they work and why they work, for those who are wondering how

[Caolela]

I feel so terrible for a $4+ billion corporation that can't seem to pull up the dough to be better protected.

Too fucking bad for Acti/Blizz and its fanboys. They get what they deserve.

[FelPlague]

I feel so terrible for a $4+ billion corporation that can't seem to pull up the dough to be better protected.

Too fucking bad for Acti/Blizz and its fanboys. They get what they deserve.

you cant really protect against ddos... thats the thing -_- so please.. read one of the many examples here ,or do some research, as the only way to protect against ddos would make doing anything in the game take a long long time to do

also who shoved a stick up your ass? cause your being an awful jerk for no reason

[Mullet Man]

you cant really protect against ddos... thats the thing -_- so please.. read one of the many examples here ,or do some research, as the only way to protect against ddos would make doing anything in the game take a long long time to do

also who shoved a stick up your ass? cause your being an awful jerk for no reason

Blizzard is just being lazy and apathetic. They are a 4+ billion company. They could anycast their bnet login servers, and other authentication services, but that would take actual work and it would be "hard". And as you can tell from their stance on vanilla servers, they are not capable of doing hard things any more.

RIP Blizzard. You were once respected. Now you are a laughing stock.

[squashdouche]

LOL is being targeted now apparently, I just settled in with a coffee to do a few grinds of ranked

[Caolela]

Blizzard is just being lazy and apathetic. They are a 4+ billion company. They could anycast their bnet login servers, and other authentication services, but that would take actual work and it would be "hard". And as you can tell from their stance on vanilla servers, they are not capable of doing hard things any more.

RIP Blizzard. You were once respected. Now you are a laughing stock.

It's not because it would be hard to do or that they're lazy. It's because Blizz avoids putting a single penny or any effort into anything that would take a few bucks out of their profits unless they think it's absolutely needed - IOW something that would possibly hurt their bottom line. Otherwise, fuck what the customers might want or would make the game QoL better.

Then they just send the PR spinmeisters out to convince the fanboys that it's A-OK.

That's why they hate gold botters and pilots but look the other way on kickbotters, fly hacks, etc.

[Bisso]

They failed at taking down Pokemon Go so they moved to something they knew they could do. Bunch of kids is all they are.

Which is surprising considering Pokemon Go keeps taking Pokemon Go down.

[IKT]

you cant really protect against ddos... thats the thing -_-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS_mitigation

You can definitely mitigate against DDOS's otherwise there'd be a hell of a lot more websites going offline, eg google.

[FelPlague]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS_mitigation

You can definitely mitigate against DDOS's otherwise there'd be a hell of a lot more websites going offline, eg google.

read one of the many examples here ,or do some research, as the only way to protect against ddos would make doing anything in the game take a long long time to do
yes they could counter it... but it would make doing anything on wow take much, much longer...
websites can protect against it much more because they dont need to have a ton of data being sent to you every single second, and have you send a bunch of data back every second, like a video game does... why do you think xbox, and playstation online have both been ddos'ed many times, pokemon go has even been ddosed... even league, it even got ddosed today, even steam gets ddosed sometimes...

[Rumblecrush]

Came for all the autistic shutins here REEEEEING and making death threats over having their pixels denied for less than a day.

Lulz were delivered

[Polybius]

Came for all the autistic shutins here REEEEEING and making death threats over having their pixels denied for less than a day.

Lulz were delivered

Both are essentially a waste.

[ipaq]

I've never seen Comcast admit when they get ddos'd so that doesn't surprise me.Hell half the time they post not outages when the internet is clearly dead in an area.

Comcast is a subscriber ISP not a backbone ISP. Please understand the difference.

They (subscriber ISPs) are usually the source of DDoS, but in case of Comcast they (seems to have) finally implemented BCP38.

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/pokem...ampaign=buffer

One thing LeakedSource staff spotted was that the first payment recorded in the botnet's control panel was of $1, while payments for the same package plan were of $19.99.

This looked like a test payment, most likely made by the person that set up the botnet's rental payment service. The data dump contained enough information to identify the person behind this initial payment in LeakedSource's own data stores. The team discovered a full name and email address, which the LeakedSource team had remembered seeing before.

Now Blizzard, Steam, etc, just have to get that information. Enjoy.

[marklee]

Why haven't these fucks been arrested yet?

Look at the history. The courts dont take this seriously. Guys have gotten like 200+ charges against them and had nothing happen.

[satimy]

I'm glad it's happening now and not on the 30th

[cFortyfive]

I have a Bachelors of Science, I'm chipping away at my Masters from University of Wisconsin Madison with some classes from Marquette.

you'd think those would require some reading skills.

companies are causing on their own

I have zero doubts that the ddos card is drawn way too often but I am rather certain it wasn't the case here.