Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning • Hacker News Board

Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning

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Post by josefresco » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 5:00 PM UTC

SimHacker wrote: post #24

evacuationdrill wrote: post #20

Is it typical that Texas would be such a large percentage of global attacks? It's at 24.83% at the moment.

Maybe the War On Christmas, Religious Bigotry, Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny, Gun Fanatics, Big Oil Companies, Global Warming Denial and Government Deregulation got started a little late.

Visited Texas last year (I'm from New England) and stayed with an Obama hating, gun toting, get-off-my-lawn Texan. We got along great, saw eye to eye on many things and generally were quite compatible. Proving the point that a person unlike people can be likable and reasonable on a one-to-one basis despite their different upbringing, background or political positions.

Dangerous to lump all Texans or all of any type into a category simple based on how the state tends to vote, or the media/'s perception of a state.

Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 6:09 PM UTC

jdubs wrote: post #27

gesman wrote: post #13

Software on my deciated server already blocked attacks from IP's belonging to: - China - Mongolia - Netherlands - Turkey - Iran - Moldova - Romania - Kazakhstan - France - Taiwan - UK Pretty diversified attack in progress.

Blocking ips from countries is not an exact science as network blocks are traded frequently and networks do not conform to lines on maps.

My read was that the software was blocking specific CIDR blocks, and those blocks were within the allocations of the listed countries.

Not that he was doing country-wide blocks. Though I could see doing that in some cases (e.g., you do no legitimate business with country Z, but get some high percentage of attack traffic from it). Metcalfe's law fails to account for the fact that many nodes in fact contribute negative value to the network.

I prefer CIDR-level blocks myself, if single-IP blocks prove too whack-a-mole-ish.

Re: Global Network Attacks Were Up Over 98% this morning

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Post by SimHacker » Mon, Jan 13, 2014, 10:21 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #28

SimHacker wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the War On Christmas, Religious Bigotry, Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny, Gun Fanatics, Big Oil Companies, Global Warming Denial and Government Deregulation got started a little late.

Texas isn't even that bad. Of course the redneck mentality thrives in rural areas, but the metropolises are fairly progressive. That said, they do hold disturbing power over certain things, such as education. But still not as bad as Mississippi. Now that is a truly awful state. The absolute worst in nearly all demographics besides violent crime (where it is second, likely due to having the highest incarceration rate)…

As long as Texas has a troglodyte in the governors mansion, it deserves the terrible reputation it has earned for itself.