OcUK DDoS attack - £10,000 reward

Cosimo · 29 Jan 2009 at 18:23

The shop is now back for me, I know that you’ve been working very hard behind the scenes, thanks!

neiljung · 29 Jan 2009 at 18:33

It's a shame that a few dozen malicious users or a small botnet can cause this kind of trouble. Hope you get to the bottom of this.

*Moangroan* · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:00

OK OK it was me.....you owe me £10K. Paypal.ok.??

spoonjaffa · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:23

Has anyone mentioned No Competitors!? The alternative to overclockers but they suck in comparison! They probably realised they were loosing too much business and started corporate warfare! I say retaliate and send in the troops!

neiljung · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:27

/me gets the hell out of the thread.

Burnsy2023 · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:31

spoonjaffa said:
Has anyone mentioned ****? The alternative to overclockers but they suck in comparison! They probably realised they were loosing too much business and started corporate warfare! I say retaliate and send in the troops!

Firstly, read the FAQ about competitors.

Secondly, read the OP about posting names.

T1Cybernetic · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:37

spoonjaffa said:
Has anyone mentioned ****? The alternative to overclockers but they suck in comparison! They probably realised they were loosing too much business and started corporate warfare! I say retaliate and send in the troops!

OH now you have gone and done it, The overclockers.co.uk ballance has been tippled over and everyone needs to hide :eek:

spoonjaffa · 29 Jan 2009 at 20:04

omph! i'm hiding now.... my only excuse is i'm delirious as at the moment - i've a bad flu.
I'll be good honest.

Richdog · 2 Feb 2009 at 10:59

Jesus some of the later comments on that Reg article page are pretty scathing... seems they approve any comments on there.

Jimbeam3678 · 2 Feb 2009 at 11:04

Take it the person responsible for this have run out of money ......

Microwave · 2 Feb 2009 at 11:05

That explains why I could never finish registering on the forum....I've been trying for the past week!

Finally!

The DDoS attacks was probably doing me a favour, keeping me from spending all my money here! I dread to think how much I have over the past few years!

mohawk · 2 Feb 2009 at 11:16

claimed!

Tombo · 2 Feb 2009 at 12:43

divaboy said:
Take it the person responsible for this have run out of money ......

Money for what?

stone_cold_Jimi · 2 Feb 2009 at 13:00

I'm a security bod... the only security bod... for an organisation with ~40k users. The latest DDoS method is the DNS "." query attack, which for very little output produces large returns, i.e. the complete root nameserver list. Only works via unpatched BIND servers, of which unfortunately there are many. Was it this? If so, you've little chance of catching the culprits I'm afraid.

Ogs · 2 Feb 2009 at 13:04

stone_cold_Jimi said:
I'm a security bod... the only security bod... for an organisation with ~40k users. The latest DDoS method is the DNS "." query attack, which for very little output produces large returns, i.e. the complete root nameserver list. Only works via unpatched BIND servers, of which unfortunately there are many. Was it this? If so, you've little chance of catching the culprits I'm afraid.

Wut.

blaze of glory · 2 Feb 2009 at 13:19

Ogs said:
Wut.

Dunno, but he sounds convincing to me. lol

Jimbeam3678 · 2 Feb 2009 at 13:23

blaze of glory said:
Dunno, but he sounds convincing to me. lol

Me to! Also run out of money to hire the zombie computers assuming that was the way it was been done

sigma · 2 Feb 2009 at 13:46

nevermind..

wordy · 2 Feb 2009 at 14:00

stone_cold_Jimi said:
I'm a security bod... the only security bod... for an organisation with ~40k users. The latest DDoS method is the DNS "." query attack, which for very little output produces large returns, i.e. the complete root nameserver list. Only works via unpatched BIND servers, of which unfortunately there are many. Was it this? If so, you've little chance of catching the culprits I'm afraid.

He did it, and is trying to cover his tracks. The filthy rotter!! :mad:

Paypal ok?

Dunks · 2 Feb 2009 at 14:09

stone_cold_Jimi said:
I'm a security bod... the only security bod... for an organisation with ~40k users. The latest DDoS method is the DNS "." query attack, which for very little output produces large returns, i.e. the complete root nameserver list. Only works via unpatched BIND servers, of which unfortunately there are many. Was it this? If so, you've little chance of catching the culprits I'm afraid.

Yes. OcUK will be running an unpatched bind server on their web server.