Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
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Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
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Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#2Do people really get punished for it? I mean the actual ones behind those bot, not the innocent ones that had their computer hacked without knowing.
If yes, how long does it normally take to get them? If At all? Weeks? Months? Years?
These days DDoS seems far too easy, far too common.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#3I was just wondering why I couldn't hop on Feedly.
I feel sort of bad that this is what makes me finally self host my RSS reader, since it's totally out of their control, but I've been planning on jumping ship for a while, it's just been low priority for me. Goread has been tempting me though, so I guess I'll check it out.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#4Do people really get punished for it? I mean the actual ones behind those bot, not the innocent ones that had their computer hacked without knowing. If yes, how long does it normally take to get them? If At all? Weeks? Months? Years? These days DDoS seems far too easy, far too common.
I quite liked this article about the issue.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...
> The shocking thing about these DDoS-for-hire services is that — as I’ve reported in several previous stories — a majority of them are run by young kids who apparently can think of no better way to prove how cool and “leet” they are than by wantonly knocking Web sites offline and by launching hugely disruptive assaults. Case in point: My site appears to have been attacked this week by a 15-year-old boy from Illinois who calls himself “Mr. Booter Master” online.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#5Do people really get punished for it? I mean the actual ones behind those bot, not the innocent ones that had their computer hacked without knowing. If yes, how long does it normally take to get them? If At all? Weeks? Months? Years? These days DDoS seems far too easy, far too common.
There will always be people who want to get some easy money and have the brains for that. Instead of playing the cat and mouse game we better take care that our networks are protected from, at least, small to mid-range DDoS attacks. The alternative is potential oppression from the governments - "you fear the bad guys, OK, then we will take some more freedoms from you and improve our surveillance to catch them".
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#6Do people really get punished for it? I mean the actual ones behind those bot, not the innocent ones that had their computer hacked without knowing. If yes, how long does it normally take to get them? If At all? Weeks? Months? Years? These days DDoS seems far too easy, far too common.
There will always be people who want to get some easy money and have the brains for that. Instead of playing the cat and mouse game we better take care that our networks are protected from, at least, small to mid-range DDoS attacks. The alternative is potential oppression from the governments - "you fear the bad guys, OK, then we will take some more freedoms from you and improve our surveillance to catch them".
There's no reason you can't punish criminals like this and still have a free, democratic, and open society.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#7Do people really get punished for it? I mean the actual ones behind those bot, not the innocent ones that had their computer hacked without knowing. If yes, how long does it normally take to get them? If At all? Weeks? Months? Years? These days DDoS seems far too easy, far too common.
Yes, people get jailed for DDoS attacks, at least in the UK. For example, two attackers were jailed for 5 years in 2013 for an extortion attempt and DDoS attack against an online casino: http://www.cnmeonline.com/news/ddos-playground-bully-blackma...
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#8Do people really get punished for it? I mean the actual ones behind those bot, not the innocent ones that had their computer hacked without knowing. If yes, how long does it normally take to get them? If At all? Weeks? Months? Years? These days DDoS seems far too easy, far too common.
Pairing blackmail + DDoS is a guaranteed way to get the big guns to investigate.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#9The original posting on their blog: http://blog.feedly.com/2014/06/11/denial-of-service-attack/
> We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement.
Last.fm is also experiencing "network difficulties" for a few days now, I'm curious if they are also on the same group.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#10I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.