OcUK DDoS attack - £10,000 reward

[Wizzfizz]

Stop imagining and try them?

I just have and they are engaged

 

[thepeganator]

Think my IP must be in a banned range, can anyone recommend who I should contact to get this rectified?

Pm might be easier, easy to miss posts in here

 

[Captain_Slick]

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.

I don't see how this'll work in OcUK's favour.

1. People coming out the shadows to comment on how awful the customer service they received was.

2. Customers having to call 0870 numbers to order anything.

3. People will just go elsewhere as they can't access the shop and won't want to rack up a phone bill.

I thought OcUK would have had protection from these sorts of attack, since they rely mainly on the shop for their income. I'm not network expert though, so I dunno how you prevent DDoS or whatever.

 

[LOAM]

snip

that's not going to last long

 

[LOAM]

+1

neither is that

 

[{SAS}TB]

Is the "1" key banned now as well ?

 

[LOAM]

all aboard the banage train

edit, where is this +1 key ?

 

[{SAS}TB]

Chooo Chooo

 

[Nanobot]

Just tried to look at the shop but got "Could not connect to the database. If the problem persists, please contact us."

 

[Rilot]

You guys aren't gonna last long.

 

[Durzel]

As has been remarked already you can't really stop DDoS attacks, you can just mitigate their effects (or better still - operate in a manner which makes them unlikely in the first place). The parallels with 9/11 are striking.

I have to say (again) that DDoS'ing on this sort of scale isn't a trivial action, it takes a level of disgruntlement and determination that transcends most "script kiddy" attacks. Having Google'd OCUK as a result of this DDoS I'm shocked at the amount of negative opinion out there

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

I thought OcUK would have had protection from these sorts of attack, since they rely mainly on the shop for their income. I'm not network expert though, so I dunno how you prevent DDoS or whatever.

You can't very well protect against a DDOS attack.

 

[Marf]

The parallels with 9/11 are striking.

lol wut?

 

[alex24]

I think the forum rules are pretty clear, if you want to **** off OCUK, do it somewhere else. Of course you're entitled to your free speech but why should they entertain it on their own forums? You don't pay the bills for the forum, you're just privelidged to get the use of them.

 

[Meatball]

Do you think they're leaving the forums to read what is being sent in this thread?

 

[4T5]

Are you honestly telling me everyone of those staff members having a flash car isn't indicating wealth?

Yes as All they are indicating is a Decent Credit limit & a good job that they have had for Over 6 months, It takes nowt more than that to get a Flash motor.

 

[Luke]

Like that with every site in the UK though, ****.co.uk was horrible for with me, wont go back there again.

And you think that was wise?

 

[Captain_Slick]

Read the forum rules

I'm not here to **** off OcUK, I haven't had any problems with them and I've ordered quite a lot from the online store.

All I'm saying is that it's understandable for things like this to happen when OcUK operates like a child in some cases.

 

[Durzel]

lol wut?

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.

I'm sorry if the above analogy flew over your head, but I thought it was quite poignant. The point is - if through your actions (or inactions) you drive people to desperate measures maybe you should look closer to home for ways to stop them occuring in the first place.

 

[LOAM]

Do you think they're leaving the forums to read what is being sent in this thread?

do you think they would be interested in the tripe thats in here ?