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Just like trying to set your local public library on fire. There are always crazies in the world.
No, more like superglueing the doors shut for a few hours.
Don't really see the damage, especially since they moved onto Twitch and WOW servers, I'd say more work and a few early nights sleep has got done in the end.
Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think they must count ~100 engineers? I can't imagine what such a small team must be going through with a major DDOS - wish them well in their efforts!
And they're hiring! https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#section-8 I worked there for four years and I miss it every day.
Sorry but now I'm curious, why did you leave?
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Part of the liability should be shared with the people owning the compromised machines these crazies are using for their attacks, otherwise attacks like these will never stop as long as enough free “ammunition” is being left around by incompetent people who can’t be bothered to secure & monitor their systems properly. Edit: in reply to some of the (valid) counter-arguments, I'd like to say that there are indeed many…
Can't wait to tell Gran she's legally liable for a DDoS because her unsecured IOT washing machine best buy sold her caused the internet to cave in ;)
Apparently this group is behind it. Also attacked WoW and twitch servers.. https://twitter.com/ukdrillas
Part of the liability should be shared with the people owning the compromised machines these crazies are using for their attacks, otherwise attacks like these will never stop as long as enough free “ammunition” is being left around by incompetent people who can’t be bothered to secure & monitor their systems properly. Edit: in reply to some of the (valid) counter-arguments, I'd like to say that there are indeed many…
Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think they must count ~100 engineers? I can't imagine what such a small team must be going through with a major DDOS - wish them well in their efforts!
Wasn't Instagram famous for having a very small team of engineers responsible for the availability of the entire platform before Facebook acquired them?
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They can be used by blackhats selling e.g. DDoD-netbots to prove the “quality of the merchandise”.
I definitely get the feeling that’s what they’re going for. They mentioned they’re just testing out a new botnet made from IoT devices.
Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think they must count ~100 engineers? I can't imagine what such a small team must be going through with a major DDOS - wish them well in their efforts!
Someone claimed the attack on twitter with some details (DDoS) - and proved it later by stopping the attack for x minutes then restarting it at a specific time. https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1170093562878472194?s=20 - the attacker also went on to DDoS the twitch ingest servers (not twitch.tv itself) knocking some big streamers offline.
Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think they must count ~100 engineers? I can't imagine what such a small team must be going through with a major DDOS - wish them well in their efforts!
Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think they must count ~100 engineers? I can't imagine what such a small team must be going through with a major DDOS - wish them well in their efforts!
Not to diminish Wikipedia engineers talent, of course... But, I'd consider Wikipedia traffic to skew heavily towards anonymous read-only, with very few logged-in write traffic. This allows for tons of caching opportunities: Varnish, Memcache, etc. And these techniques are well known.