Admin Notice: Server hosting and denial of service attack

[Leo]

Here's what my dad had to say on the subject when he responded to my email:
Depending on what form of DDOS attack it was, depends on if you can ever find them. Recent attacks have been using DNS amplification (basically the attacker uses zombie/bot systems to send multiple DNS queries of a specific type to numerous DNS servers, but using a spoofed source address (the address of the targeted server) the DNS servers then send a reply (very large compared to the query) to the targeted host, flooding the network connection of the server. There are other forms of DDOS, but effectively they all do the same thing, flood the targets network connection so nobody else can connect to it. This is one of the hardest types of attacks to track down, due to the use of zombie/bot systems (all those unprotected windows systems on the internet, or ones that have been compromised by some Trojan via email or a hostile hidden iframe on a web page they visited. As you can attest, you were infected with one a while ago. Thats what I fight day in and day out here at NASA, trying to educate users not to click OK whenever something pops up. The weakest link in computer security is the user. Sorry, but unless the service provider (ISP) wants to get the FBI involved, there is not much youll be able to do, as they are the only ones with the ability to subpoena the logs of all the internet carriers., and they are swamped with more important cases than DDOS attacks. (Banking/identity/credit card theft, etc.)

[sarcasm]Careful Tena, you may get called a liar for posting that up.[/sarcasm]

But, I digress. It's pretty much going to be impossible to track this guy down. I've found out stuff about him, but not anything that will really help us out.

~Leo

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