DDoS attack on 123-reg

One of the greatest security concerns of the future.
 
I've just had an email from my hosting company telling me about it.

Perhaps the future is 'walled in' areas such as Facebook and Google+ just like the old days of AOL!
 
Since 123reg provide our authoritative nameservers, I knew something was up from people ringing me up to say they couldn't get to our websites, which actually meant that their ISP's cacheing nameserver had reached the TTL on lookup for our hostname and tried to get another, but failed. (Yes, I did end up explaining how DNS works to one customer).

I confirmed it was 123reg having problems by looking at their twitter feed, the first time I've found a real use for twitter.
 
Yes it is affecting a lot of my other halfs clients today.
 
... but figuring out who orchestrated it and linking it to an individual is nigh on impossible. Oh, and it may not be seen as illegal in that persons country of residence.
 
ouch.. like andy said good luck bringing the person(s) responsible for this to justice.

i dont see the point, i understand the rise in malware in the search for personal info and cash but this was utterly pointless apart from stretching some cyber-wannabees ego.
 
This happened to TSO host not so long back - not as big a company, but all the same... Not cool!

I don't know why Google tried to fight their way into China - let them get on with it. What's the actual point in DDOSing an UK hosting company. :|
 
Is this the 21st C equivalent of a Chinese Takeaway?
 
Nothing really to read into this at all. DDoS attacks are just people trying to make a name for themselves.

The fact that most of the 'attacking' machines were based in China doesn't tell you anything, they could be 'owned' by anyone, anywhere, and hired by anyone, anywhere.
 
mid_gen said:
Nothing really to read into this at all. DDoS attacks are just people trying to make a name for themselves.

The fact that most of the 'attacking' machines were based in China doesn't tell you anything, they could be 'owned' by anyone, anywhere, and hired by anyone, anywhere.
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Agreed. Some hackers see it as the modern day equiv of a job application!
 
Yeah, that's a fair point. Last I heard, the majority of the top hackers end up in well paid security related jobs.
 
Tom C said:
Yeah, that's a fair point. Last I heard, the majority of the top hackers end up in well paid security related jobs.
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Or being extradited to the USA
 
This could have been a criminal blackmail attempt, or maybe 123-reg are hosting a site that says something the attackers don't like?
 
Or maybe a competitor trying to ruin them.
 
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