OcUK DDoS attack - £10,000 reward

Hatter The Mad · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:17

J.B said:
Wow we're on the register!

Its not the first time:

http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=ocuk

shauncr91 · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:18

simulatorman said:
....and on many other sites, lets hope that it brings a result.

Just do a google search for "OcUK DDOS attack", the amount of results is quite mental.

CliffyG · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:19

LOL at the registers description of OcUK:

OcUK is a hybrid hardware hacker enthusiast site and online computer kit reseller set up back in 1999 by Web designer Mark Proudfoot and PC reseller Peter Radford. ®

arc@css · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:24

Did wonder why the site was running so slow, tried to get on at work during quiet periods, was running like a dog.

arc@css · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:27

Nico_Joey said:
Bah! Hope things get sorted asap, im sure some more computer literate members could help

x2

Same here, I wouldn't know where to start. I could look under my desk if that would help.

Anyway, good luck in sorting this out.

JAMAL · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:32

This is going to be the best free advertising Ocuk have ever had at this rate!!!!!!!

Nobody will be done for it, Mark wont have to cough up 10K but the advertising will be fantastic!

SMN · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:33

Do you know what is being DDoS'd? If it is the DNS servers, a quick fix would be to shift the DNS / WWW Records to an external host for now while you investigate the logs, so the website availability wont be compromised (although i havent got a clue how easy it is to do unfortunately).

It's probably a botnet which are very hard to stop without hard-to-configure ingress/egress firewall rules on a solid gateway.

mks2005 · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:35

It's crazy when you google this, just shows how quickly information spreads nowadays. Of course, this can only work in OcUK's favour. At the very least it may intimidate the attacker.

4p · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:37

No chance.

mk17 · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:38

is the shop-site getting hit right now? its crawling like a dog for me.

Wyrdo · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:39

mk17 said:
is the shop-site getting hit right now? its crawling like a dog for me.

Yeah very slow here, forums are fine though.

willhub · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:39

Wonder if some company might do this DDOS attack themselves now if it is found to actually boost sales?

BYTEr · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:40

mk17 said:
is the shop-site getting hit right now? its crawling like a dog for me.

Same, need to order a few parts as well which I need for tomorrow and got to out in 10 mins

Flukester · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:41

JAMAL said:
This is going to be the best free advertising Ocuk have ever had at this rate!!!!!!!

Nobody will be done for it, Mark wont have to cough up 10K but the advertising will be fantastic!

ok , tin foil hat time, ready for this.

I don't think someone with a grudge against ocuk could muster up a bot net, it's just crazy to think so. (or maybe not ?)

this could be the most cunning plan for publicity ever, the 1 day of down time (done at flick of switch) will more than be made up for extra hits from news sites.

just a idea

, like I said 'tin foil hat', but it's possible

Sukh · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:41

Call the order in?

gillywibble · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:41

shauncr91 said:
Just do a google search for "OcUK DDOS attack", the amount of results is quite mental.

8 results excluding duplicates :confused:

Doran · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:42

This is like terrorism - you cannot win if you have to react.

A better ploy would have been do not act in a way that creates hate.

Would have saved thousands.

bigredshark · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:46

jaybee said:
If people are saying DDOS attacks are easy to perform by "script kiddies" and difficult to defend against and to trace, then why do we not come accross them much more often? Like say daily on big websites? I would have thought that by some of the descriptions as to how hard they are to trace, underground hackers would run these sort of things all the time on major sites? It's interesting reading how these things are organised, and frankly I'm quite astonished as to how many sites would be prone to this kind of realtively simple attack. Is it simple though? It sounds like you would have to know what you were doing to properly organize such an attack?

Not what you need in current economic times. Good luck.

They do, but big websites have appropriate protection. We host the webshop for a fairly large lingerie chain and it attracts a big DDOS every 6 months or so, we kind of expect it these days. With the right equipment (either dedicated IDP appliances or carrier grade firewalls) it's easily countered...

Kreeeee · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:46

Flukester said:
ok , tin foil hat time, ready for this.

I don't think someone with a grudge against ocuk could muster up a bot net, it's just crazy to think so. (or maybe not ?)

this could be the most cunning plan for publicity ever, the 1 day of down time (done at flick of switch) will more than be made up for extra hits from news sites.

just a idea , like I said 'tin foil hat', but it's possible

=/

bigredshark · 22 Jan 2009 at 12:47

BYTEr said:
Same, need to order a few parts as well which I need for tomorrow and got to out in 10 mins

I don't know if you've heard of these things called 'telephones'??