OcUK DDoS attack - £10,000 reward

_dogma_ · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:00

Have nothing helpful to add but I hope this gets sorted soon

RoboCod · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:00

Burnsy2023 said:
Only when you're spending time at Her Majesty's leisure

I'll do 4 weeks for £10k

corex2 · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:02

It would be my first offence so id only get a caution.....

Iraklis F.C. · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:02

In the past if memory serves me right someone who got banned was sending out mass emails to members of the forums?

Hope its sorted out quickly

rypt · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:04

corex2 said:
It would be my first offence so id only get a caution.....

Until USA accuses you of terrorism by hacking the CIA to setup a zombie computer there.

corex2 · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:05

Could be No Competitors! !! Imagine if they used all there display computers as drones in all the stores around the uk. they could send some serious stuff your way !!!

corex2 · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:06

rypt said:
Until USA accuses you of terrorism by hacking the CIA to setup a zombie computer there.

I could just say i left my wireless routeur unsecured and blame it on the old man who lives next door...

Lee2k4 · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:06

Is this why I could not get on the site about 4 hours ago?, forums would not load or the main shop.

corex2 · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:06

anyway, what does ddos stand for ?

Tobes · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:07

Really hope something comes of this Spie. Can't live without the forums.

I won't post any network advice as I'm sure the employees of one of the best pc component shops on the net are not retarded and know what they are doing. Unless of course you want my advice. Then I suggest turning it off and on.

crunchee · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:07

DDoS attacks, they are petty and noobery.
its just people who want to look cool because they cant hack, so they throw a bunch of junk at the server.

its like the big dumb guy breaking into the house
"duuuuuuh, umm, i can't pick lock, i break lock, guuuurrrr"

lulz

bigredshark · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:07

2StepSteve said:
Sadly it isn't as simple as this otherwise many botnet owners would be behind bars by now. There will be another smaller botnet which gives out the attack commands to the main set of attacking drones. I think that luck plays a big part in taking down these script kiddie idiots out there.

Oftentimes it is that simple, sure the smart ones use a secondary botnet (or just a open wifi connection) but some script kiddie with grudge against OCUK isn't necessarily going to be smart. But yes, luck plays a big part and they tend to catch the dumb ones, the smart ones are in other countries and are near untouchable to be honest...

rypt · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:08

corex2 said:
anyway, what does ddos stand for ?

distributed denial of service attack

bigredshark said:
Oftentimes it is that simple, sure the smart ones use a secondary botnet (or just a open wifi connection) but some script kiddie with grudge against OCUK isn't necessarily going to be smart. But yes, luck plays a big part and they tend to catch the dumb ones, the smart ones are in other countries and are near untouchable to be honest...

Or the old trick of making zombies connect to IRC to issue commands.
Some punk had done that using an IRC network I was an Op on more than a few years ago, can't really go into it further though.

Dist · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:08

corex2 said:
anyway, what does ddos stand for ?

distributed denial of service

Dogoid · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:08

corex2 said:
anyway, what does ddos stand for ?

someone kill him

RoboCod · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:08

Tobes said:
Really hope something comes of this Spie. Can't live without the forums.

You aren't being serious are you?

[noodle] · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:09

Good luck with finding out whoever did it, could be quite a challenge.

corex2 said:
they could send some serious <ahem> your way !!!

Might want to edit that sweary.

bigredshark · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:10

Iraklis F.C. said:
In the past if memory serves me right someone who got banned was sending out mass emails to members of the forums?

Hope its sorted out quickly

I imagine they've already added the origin of those emails (if traceable) to their list of suspects to pass on to SOCA, it's an obvious person with a grudge. If not I heartily concur and suggest you do so smartly OCUK!

Tobes · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:11

Captain Planet said:
You aren't being serious are you?

Yeeeeaaahhhh boi. I had the noose around my neck and everything. I hit refresh one last time and I was greeted by the blue screen of OcUK. So decided to live it for now.

rypt · 21 Jan 2009 at 23:12

Dogoid said:
someone kill him

Him personally, or just his net connection?

j/k