>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Truckchase:
Why would anyone write a virus that targets less than a 5% desktop user base?
Because it would also target about 80% of all web servers?
Why tamper with kitchen faucets when you can poison the water supply?
talks

Absolutely! That's a different attack vector though; this vid is addressing client side desktop infection. (DDOS bot, "security" blackmail, etc.)

Edit: That said though, great point. It is odd that so much effort goes into client infection. It's unfortunate that default firewalling tech on any client isn't to a L7 packet inspection level yet. It would seem to make any client an easier target. mmmmm..._Computers

Those of you that aren't in the know, here is a breakdown of what's happened since they began releasing these documents:(provided by The Guardian)

Sunday 28 November

• TECH: DDoS attack hits WikiLeaks as first set of US diplomatic cables is published.

Wednesday 1 December

• TECH: Tableau Software, which offers free software for data visualisation, removes the public views of graphics built using information about the diplomatic cables. It is the first company to distance itself from Wikileaks, and admits that the reason was pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent senator with ties to the Democratic party.

• POLITICS: Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security, calls for Wikileaks to be taken offline. "I call on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them. Wikileaks' illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world. No responsible company - whether American or foreign - should assist Wikileaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials."

• TECH Amazon removes Wikileaks's content from its EC2 cloud service, but later insists it did so because the content could cause harm to people and did not belong to Wikileaks – and that it was not due to political pressure or the hacker attacks against the site.

Friday 3 December

• TECH: Wikileaks.org ceases to work for web users after everyDNS.com(*edit* not easyDNS), which had provided a free routing service translating the human-readable address into a machine-readable form, ends support.

Wikileaks shifts to a backup domain registered in Switzerland but actually hosted in Sweden, at Wikileaks.ch, though the cables are hosted in part by OVH, an internet provider in the north of France.

EveryDNS claims that the DDOS attacks against Wikileaks were disrupting its service provided to thousands of other customers. (*edit* there was a mixup, and everyDNS, not easyDNS was resonsible. EasyDNS has posted that it's "The Company That Did NOT Take Down Wikileaks" beside a cartoon character showing a thumbs up.

• POLITICS: French industry minister Eric Besson writes to internet companies warning them there will be "consequences" for any companies or organisations helping to keep WikiLeaks online in the country.

Saturday 4 December

• MONEY: PayPal, owned by US auction site eBay, permanently restricts account used by WikiLeaks due to a "violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy". A spokesman said the account was suspended because "[it] cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity."
You can still donate at Commerzbank Kassel in Germnany or Landsbanki in Iceland or by post to a post office box at the University of Melbourne or at http://wikileaks.ch/support.html

• TECH: Switch, the Swiss registrar for Wikileaks.ch declines pressure from US and French authorities to remove the site or block access to it.

Sunday 5 December

• TECH: The Pirate Party in Sweden says that it has taken over the hosting of the Cablegate directory of Wikileaks after the server in France at OVH, which had been hosting the contents of the US diplomatic cables released so far, goes offline.

Monday 6 December

• MONEY: Credit card company Mastercard withdraws ability to make donations to Wikileaks. "MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products," the credit card outfit says.

• TECH: Wikileaks' servers in Sweden attacked by distributed denial of service attack.

• MONEY: Postfinance, the Swiss postal system, strips WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool, accusing him of lying and immediately shutting down one of his bank accounts. The bank says that Assange had "provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process."
Assange had told Postfinance he lived in Geneva but could offer no proof that he was a Swiss resident, a requirement of opening such an account. Postfinance spokesman Alex Josty told The Associated Press the account was closed Monday afternoon and there would be "no criminal consequences" for misleading authorities. "That's his money, he will get his money back," Josty said. "We just close the account and that's it."

Tuesday 7 December

• MONEY: Credit card company Visa withdraws ability to make donations or payments to Wikileaks. "Visa Europe has taken action to suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks' website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules," said a spokesman.

Tier the internet and it will only drive the users to Pirate Internet.

Anyone and their damned dad can learn how to tunnel. I guarantee the first week of tiered internet, pirate nodes will be up all over the damned world. I would even venture to say that there would be wholesale DDOS attacks generating from strange corners of the globe on all major gateways. The same thing that happened to Ubisoft and their bullshit DRM.

Okay, so this is the latest of several self-linked videos submitted for this Doritos viral commercial thing. Subbie is trying to win $10,000, and while I wish him good luck self-linking is a clear violation of the terms of use, blah, blah, blah. I would have insta-banned, but it wasn't an option available for some reason. *edit*- I now know why I couldn't instaban this guy- it's because I instabanned another Doritos guy yesterday. Checks and balances- fair enough.

I've got a little bit of an issue with these- a couple of contestants have been hijacking the mailing list at FreeCycle to get attention for their commercials. I'm an admin there and have spent too much time trying to play whack-a-mole for the last few days- it's almost like a DDOS attack.

Us. DDoS!

COPYCAT! I was encouraging downvoting before it was popular. Hell, before I'd registered I carried out ddos attacks whenever I'd find a crappy sift on here.

My DDOS attacks will soon commence! ALL traffic will be rerouted into obscure channel!!! THE PHILISTINES SHALL LEARN!!!!!

It could be that people go to videosift first thing after the end of whatever TV show they were watching that ended on the hour. What does the net traffic graph look like?

Putting a 15 second cooldown between searches from the same IP is a good idea regardless. Someone could easily DDoS by spamming search queries. And make sure you disallow the search page in your robots.txt.

See also,
scientology.com DDoS, release of training materials, and Declaration of War, more news on WikiNews

and also Party Van page for the current LULZ mission

DDoS?

can't believe this is still running. Ryan and colin have been ddoing this now for what, like... forever.... I remember watching them on the UK version about 10 years ago.. good work if you can get it