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DDoS of SN Underway [Updated]

posted by on Sunday October 30 2016, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-fishing-for-me-this-morning dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Right, so there's currently a DDoS of our site specifically happening. Part of me is mildly annoyed, part of me is proud that we're worth DDoS-ing now. Since it's only slowing us down a bit and not actually shutting us down, I'm half tempted to just let them run their botnet time out. I suppose we should tweak the firewall a bit though. Sigh, I hate working on weekends.

Update: Okay, that appears to have mitigated it; the site's functional at a reasonable rate of responsiveness.

Update2: Attack's over for now. You may go about your business.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 30 2016, @04:47PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 30 2016, @04:47PM (#420549) Homepage

    You have enemies? Good, it means you have stood up for something in your life.

    -- Winston Churchill

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @05:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @05:10PM (#420559)

    For some reason, I thought of pop divas that nobody's thought of for awhile (e.g. Janet Jackson), suddenly hitting the top of the Yahoo news crawl for an embarrassing "wardrobe malfunction".

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by archfeld on Sunday October 30 2016, @05:53PM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Sunday October 30 2016, @05:53PM (#420578) Journal

    I blame you Ethanol, not sure why, but it just seems fitting. What have you been doing lately that would cause this ?
    Did you push some old lady into traffic :) But then again maybe it was me, The NSA is investigating me regarding keyword postings and have decided this is a terrorist supporting hub...

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 30 2016, @06:22PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 30 2016, @06:22PM (#420586) Homepage

      If its not something Buzzard posted, then it was probably my comment about Hillary arming terrorists with Stinger missiles. It may have even been a friendly doing it as a joke.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:23PM

        by frojack (1554) on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:23PM (#420674) Journal

        Nah, it was me challenging the IOT source claims in the popular press. All 278 Alexa users decided to sic her on Soylent.

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