Admin Notice: Server hosting and denial of service attack

[Zack]

Very good explanation. Sounds really frickin' scary. The guy knows what he's doing.

Thanks! The attack is a bit more complicated than I initially thought it was, I figured it was an ICMP flood, turned out to be a UDP flood, not too different in their end result, but the execution of this definitely was... unique. This is why people shouldn't code a public web-site that has strong integration with the server it's hosted on without consulting someone who's got their head on straight when it comes to running a secure server :>

actually, i dont think that he knows, whats he is doing and since there are programs available for such things....
hehe:D

This is probably true, I'm not sure on the required level of programming skill to use a public web-server to attack another server... but I'd imagine it's not easy, unless the person who coded that site did something retarded... like put a bash prompt ON the site ~_~

"black hat hacker" (that's the definition i tend to use on reports for college about this)

Perfect!

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