Gawker Media Currently Under Successful Attack by 4chan
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Gawker Media Currently Under Successful Attack by 4chan
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#2fyi - it seems like they are back up...for now.
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#3What does 4chan actually do to "attack" a site?
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#4What does 4chan actually do to "attack" a site?
They usually use a tool called the "Low Orbital Ion Cannon" which is really just a DDoS app with a silly GUI slapped on top of it.
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#5Re: Gawker Media Currently Under Successful Attack by 4chan
#6What does 4chan actually do to "attack" a site?
They usually use a tool called the "Low Orbital Ion Cannon" which is really just a DDoS app with a silly GUI slapped on top of it.
You're partially right..
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Denial_of_Service
also, there are irc servers that people set up for different events, but that's getting more into the chanology side of it.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
They usually use a tool called the "Low Orbital Ion Cannon" which is really just a DDoS app with a silly GUI slapped on top of it.
You're partially right.. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Denial_of_Service also, there are irc servers that people set up for different events, but that's getting more into the chanology side of it.
aka botnets?
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#8What does 4chan actually do to "attack" a site?
run trojan infected ddos clients
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#9Shouldn't that by "...under successful attack by 4chan users" ("under attack by anonymous" isn't journalistic enough, even for Village Voice)? I don't think "4chan" the site officially endorses the attack.
Is this because of gawker's criticism of the "You don goofed?" affair? Jessi Slaughter, the face that launched a thousand rootkits.
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#10What does 4chan actually do to "attack" a site?
The last time I visisted, ~20% of the posts on /b/ were malware, botnets, and various other goodies to probe. 4chan users basically use their own community to attack sites. There's self-servicing ddos web apps/downloads and the infected, uneducated browsers of the site. Its actually quite ironic to see an user utilize their own internet connection in an organized DDOS, eh?
Its not too far-fetched too imagine a certain percentage of their community also has some type of access to botnets to assist in attacks.. I mean that's what they do, sometimes, so, why not be prepared?