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Re: DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

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Post by justsomehnguy »

matkoniecz wrote: post #45
justsomehnguy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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At no point I claimed that Poland was land of saints and cuddly plush bears. See also Bereza Kartuska. What you linked does not change at all that being invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union was absolutely awful and both were clearly evil. (and if you want to start oppression olympics, then yes: what Germany and Russia did was far worse than what Poland did, for that matter what Ukrainian OUN UPA did…

It hurts what you actually was on the same level but got the short end, eh?

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Post by speerer »

There's some interesting commentry at https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id... , which suggests that the widespread outage is due to a single point of failure:

> ID-Porten: When One Gateway Controls Everything

> At the center of the disruption is ID-porten — the national login gateway operated by Norway's Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), the government agency responsible for public-sector digitalization. ID-porten functions as the single sign-on portal through which Norwegian citizens authenticate themselves to access public digital services.

It seems to be a corporate service provider that's a dependency for many other services.

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Post by justsomehnguy »

anon48293 wrote: post #37
coffinbirth wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always find it unbelievable how people do not know or just forget about what happened in the east 85 years ago. Really sad. This is one of the primary reasons why people in the west don't understand why Russia cannot accept Ukraine in NATO. It was NATO that expanded to the east, contrary to the agreements after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia said for decades that Ukraine in NATO is unacceptable.

Ukraine sought NATO membership AFTER Russia attacked in 2014, not before. Since you’re such a history buff, what did Russia promise when Ukraine got rid of their nukes?

> NATO Action Plan membership (Georgia and Ukraine) 4 April 2008

Sure, sure a fresh "anon" account.

Re: DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

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Post by anon48293 »

coffinbirth wrote: post #47
anon48293 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ukraine sought NATO membership AFTER Russia attacked in 2014, not before. Since you’re such a history buff, what did Russia promise when Ukraine got rid of their nukes?

> Ukraine got rid of their nukes Russia is the official successor state of the Soviet Union, the nukes never belonged to Ukraine in the first place. It was Ukraine that first attacked LPR and DPR in 2014. It was Ukraine that forbid Russian language, culture, church, etc... to Russians living in eastern Ukraine. By the way, Odessa will return to Russia.

Answer the question. What did Russia state in the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances?

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Post by [deleted] »

speerer wrote: post #52

There's some interesting commentry at https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id... , which suggests that the widespread outage is due to a single point of failure: > ID-Porten: When One Gateway Controls Everything > At the center of the disruption is ID-porten — the national login gateway operated by Norway's Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), the government agency responsible for public-sector…

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Re: DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

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Post by TacticalCoder »

lschueller wrote: post #55

I'd guess someone in the us fat-fingered ip ranges and mixed up 2.144.0.0/14 (Iran) with 2.148.0.0/14 (Norway)

Or someone entered 2.144.0.0/14 but on a machine without ECC and a bit-flip happened, turning it into 2.148.0.0/14.

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Post by inigyou »

cynicalsecurity wrote: post #8
just_some_user wrote: post #5

The actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it. A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddies, but such attacks are usually very short lived as attacks are expensive. So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?

Really, you have no one in mind? Someone who is sending hundreds of bombing drones daily to Ukraine, killing civilian population, women and children, and who is eager to send a message to NATO countries any way possible?

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Post by inigyou »

esseph wrote: post #42
just_some_user wrote: post #5

The actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it. A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddies, but such attacks are usually very short lived as attacks are expensive. So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?

It hasn't been majorly like that in twenty years. Botnets are services now, a business. They gain customers by their effectiveness and resilience. For $$50-100 you can deny service to a lot of big sites and services.

I've seen people say this but no proof of it. Could I really take down Stack Overflow for $50? Oh wait, it took itself down for free.
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