Comments on: Distributed Denial of Service Attack is Over – Back in the saddle

By: Extreme John

Extreme John — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:54:58 +0000

That sucks bro, even though I am a little late on this I have been through that crap before, it’s even worse when you have an affiliate program.

Happy to see things are back to normal…. well Dave normal :)
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:56:30 +0000

As Walter says: "Dress up like seals and go play with the sharks." Booyah. .-= Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 2) =-.

By: Deacon

Deacon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:52:12 +0000

As the guy I learned to surf with said, “when you’re in the water, you’re part of the food chain.”
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:23:23 +0000

Bert, this is the first time in the 3 years I’ve been with Bluehost that I’ve had this extensive an attack.

It’s still going on. Which is crazy.

My guess is that this is test run for a new botnet being run by a large criminal or multinational interest. Picking on a shared hosting provider would get them lots of data with very little risk. Shared hosting providers have neither the mojo themselves, nor the customers to much more than attempt to get out of the way.

A few runs on shared hosting provides, then go after government or industry site using what they learned.

There’s a whole seamy underside to the web. If you count spam, this covert web traffic is estimated to be 10-15 times larger than the legal web traffic we interact with.

In short, the web ecosystem is slithering with parasites.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:09:34 +0000

No, probably going up into Marin. Doran Cove would be working with this size of swell, so would Limantour. Shark city, heh…
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By: Deacon

Deacon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:55:21 +0000

You headin’ to Mavericks?
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By: Cebu Tech Blogger

Cebu Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:30:54 +0000

Now it’s great to see this site alive again… Just curious, how frequently Bluehost got DDOS since you joined?
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