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General Category => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: thorfourwinds on July 07, 2012, 01:31:37 AM

Title: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: thorfourwinds on July 07, 2012, 01:31:37 AM
Greetings:

Apparently the currently-being-discussed black ops mind control mission theoretically launched against TLM/PRC et al couldn't make it past our well-prepared mental shields, so 'someone' took another shot at our hardware - another effective way of quashing communication if successful.


First TWIT, now this... not that we are the least bit paranoid...


As usual we were hunting those wascally wrabbits and had been cruising along this morning about four hours when we got bumped off the Internet (direct DSL connection).

No problem, merely relaunch Safari.


Not quite that easy.


System Diagnostics showed "No Internet connection" - and we had touched/changed nothing.

So we went around to the back of the systems wall and found this:



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/touchingwirescausesdeath.png)


Those Apple techs have a sense of humor.

Finally, after having to hard reboot and reset the modem, we logged in to see this:



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/TLMsplashpage.png)



Ho-hum, probably nothing, Zorgon tweaking the system, however, the past few day's questions and subtle warnings swirled murkily about in our head much like a fine Minestrone, so we'll check it out.



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/MacKeeper6July2012014133pm14602759TB-1.png)



What ?



That be

1 million,
460 thousand,
275.9 TB


not-so-casually directed our way...



Game on!


So exactly how much is that?


Terabyte:

A Terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes, or 1,000 Gigabytes.

We have a two terabyte drive off-line for secure backup.

To put it in some perspective, a Terabyte could hold about 3.6 million 300 Kilobyte images or maybe about 300 hours of good quality video.

A Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ten Terabytes could hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress.

That's a lot of data.



A common PC would have gone up in flames -
Amy, is that what happened to you this morning?



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/mycomputerbonfire.png)



(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/yr4f2311b7.jpg)

(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/Vault/shieldsupIP69402496july12041414pm.png)

It appears that we are still relatively safe, operating in Full Stealth mode.

(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/mymacstealth.png)

(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/Vault/ShieldsUpfirst1056ports.png)

http://config.privoxy.org/


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/privoxy30191.png)
(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/privoxy2.png)



Everything appears to normal at this exact moment in time. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnJo88kuP8)


Looks around for clif (http://halfpasthuman.com/clifswujo.html) to appear and say,


"I told you so a year ago,
but you wouldn't listen
and refused to understand the significance."



Now, what in the world did he mean by that?   :P



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/nuclearhand_600.jpg) (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1405.0)


What, we worry?


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Debris%20Island%20Update/dannyboes01.jpg)


Peace Love Light
tfw
Liberty & Equality or Revolution


(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/ti4f04fff3.jpg)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb5zT8D-Ppc


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Debris%20Island%20Update/Japan-After-the-Nuclear-Disaster--84087.jpg)

Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: ArMaP on July 07, 2012, 02:01:33 AM
I don't get it, you talk about "1 million, 460 thousand, 275.9 TB not-so-casually directed our way..." but the image talks about "disk space".  ???

Is that a 1.3 exabyte disk, or is that data received?  ???

If it's data received, what time it took to reach that value? During one year that would mean a constant 34 Gigabytes per second.  ???
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: baddmove on July 07, 2012, 02:02:10 AM
Wouldn't that guy from Mad magazine need an amp for his electric guitar to work?  just wondering...
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: ArMaP on July 07, 2012, 02:03:30 AM
Quote from: baddmove on July 07, 2012, 02:02:10 AM
Wouldn't that guy from Mad magazine need an amp for his electric guitar to work?  just wondering...
He probably has a Mac, so he doesn't need an amp.  :P
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: thorfourwinds on July 07, 2012, 03:01:31 AM
Quote from: ArMaP on July 07, 2012, 02:01:33 AM
I don't get it, you talk about "1 million, 460 thousand, 275.9 TB not-so-casually directed our way..." but the image talks about "disk space".  ???

Is that a 1.3 exabyte disk, or is that data received?  ???

If it's data received, what time it took to reach that value? During one year that would mean a constant 34 Gigabytes per second.  ???

Greetings:

Thank you for your time, consideration and participation.

Quoteor is that data received?

Data directed our direction in less than 24 hours and shunted to a bottomless server for analysis.  :o

This is not some kid with a laptop.

@ baddmove: Mac here - no amp needed - the Ben Franklin Effect provides the power (eat your heart out, Mikado) :D

We have NEVER experienced anything like this, and welcome all comments.

Thank you for your time, consideration and participation.

thw
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: zorgon on July 07, 2012, 03:59:30 AM
Quote from: baddmove on July 07, 2012, 02:02:10 AM
Wouldn't that guy from Mad magazine need an amp for his electric guitar to work?  just wondering...

Why would you need an amp if your plugged in to the Cosmic Resonator?
just asking :D
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: zorgon on July 07, 2012, 04:01:37 AM
Okay this is the program/site I was looking for I was sure I posted it here but can't find the thread

But ummm  you should have redacted your IP address from that image  :o

No good being in stealth mode if your advertizing where you are  :P


(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/Vault/ShieldsUpfirst1056ports.png)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: thorfourwinds on July 07, 2012, 10:33:21 AM
Thanks.

If you carefully check that IP that was posted, you will find that it is not our 'true' IP.

That's a cheesebox   :D

We hope...

Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: zorgon on July 07, 2012, 11:46:25 AM
Okay wasn't sure so I zapped it anyway :D
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: thorfourwinds on July 07, 2012, 12:00:18 PM
Quote from: zorgon on July 07, 2012, 11:46:25 AM
Okay wasn't sure so I zapped it anyway :D

We noticed that.

Thank you.  :D

This is what a day without 'interference' usually looks like:

(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Early%20July%202012/MacKeeper7July12051214am.png)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: ArMaP on July 07, 2012, 03:39:36 PM
Quote from: thorfourwinds on July 07, 2012, 03:01:31 AM
Data directed our direction in less than 24 hours and shunted to a bottomless server for analysis.  :o
That means an incoming capacity of 17 Terabytes per second.  ???
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: burntheships on July 07, 2012, 07:10:26 PM
Thank you for the heads up...
Duly noted.

Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: thorfourwinds on September 04, 2012, 07:51:03 PM
This is probably the Sarge's black-ops friends at work...

kicked off line and look at what happened today:

4,292,608.0 TB DOS attack

(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/September%202012%20One/MacKeeper4sept1242926080TB.png)

And then this whilst visiting overseas:


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/September%202012%20One/AlJazerraHACKED.png)

This recently behind a 29 TB attack:


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/September%202012%20One/ScrambledscreenPRC2.png)


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/September%202012%20One/ScrambledPRCscreen.png)

At least we have 'interesting' activity documented.

tfw


Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: zorgon on September 04, 2012, 11:47:17 PM
i don't follow here.... no one else is reporting any such attacks and the server reports all clear. The logs don't show anywhere near even 1 terabyte traffic at any time

Your clip below

(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/September%202012%20One/MacKeeper4sept1242926080TB.png)

Shows the 27 issues are in your junk files... so I am having trouble seeing at what your getting at?  Perhaps they have hacked you personally?
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: zorgon on September 04, 2012, 11:49:01 PM
Quote from: ArMaP on July 07, 2012, 03:39:36 PM
That means an incoming capacity of 17 Terabytes per second.  ???

Is that a lot?

::)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: Somamech on September 04, 2012, 11:58:16 PM
 :o

(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/September%202012%20One/ScrambledscreenPRC2.png)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: zorgon on September 05, 2012, 12:04:46 AM
Here is our recorded traffic since Jan 01 2012. The highest we had was 500GB in April

Month   Unique visitors   Number of visits   Pages   Hits   Bandwidth
Jan 2012   117743   150771   442448   1928568   296.10 GB
Feb 2012   124285   157090   496515   2102681   327.38 GB
Mar 2012   119132   153893   560292   2315777   337.46 GB
Apr 2012   139545   183478   732463   2785842   501.29 GB
May 2012   114421   153317   623702   2555448   360.07 GB
Jun 2012   118930   152520   685178   2545371   293.37 GB
Jul 2012   116023   149569   847182   3100659   316.94 GB
Aug 2012   132253   168705   739892   3026617   338.58 GB
Sep 2012   16515   18759   62151   270324   30.37 GB
Oct 2012   0   0   0   0   0
Nov 2012   0   0   0   0   0
Dec 2012   0   0   0   0   0
Total   998847   1288102   5189823   20631287   2801.54 GB




Googlebot   4734   221.73 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:58
BaiDuSpider   2612   24.74 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:58 (China)
Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*')   2465   67.92 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:50
MSNBot   1253   11.51 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 01:05
Yahoo Slurp   750   124.31 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:42
MJ12bot   686   5.46 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 02:31
Unknown robot (identified by empty user agent string)   594   46.05 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:41
Java (Often spam bot)   546   64.93 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 02:38
Unknown robot (identified by '*bot')   501   13.02 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:32
Yandex bot   387   53.70 MB   04 Sep 2012 - 04:09
Others   1731   209.91 MB   
* Robots shown here gave hits or traffic "not viewed" by visitors, so they are not included in other charts.
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: Pimander on September 05, 2012, 12:35:32 AM
Quote from: zorgon on September 04, 2012, 11:49:01 PM
Is that a lot?

::)
Put it this way, you won't get than amount of data through an ethernet cable or a wireless connection.
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: ArMaP on September 05, 2012, 12:48:58 AM
Quote from: zorgon on September 04, 2012, 11:49:01 PM
Is that a lot?

::)
It's six times this year's traffic. :)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks fail again
Post by: zorgon on September 05, 2012, 12:55:18 AM
Quote from: ArMaP on September 05, 2012, 12:48:58 AM
It's six times this year's traffic. :)

Well I originally paid for 6 terabytes but then they switched to unlimited. The usage meter barely registers on the scale :P
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: Caver78 on September 06, 2012, 06:43:56 PM
somebody ought to start a thread for internet security....just observing.....hahaha
[some of us kids are ''special bus'']
;)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: zorgon on September 06, 2012, 07:40:26 PM
Quote from: Caver78 on September 06, 2012, 06:43:56 PM
somebody ought to start a thread for internet security....just observing.....hahaha

Computer Health Tips
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=736.0

Help for technical issues on your PC
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1397.0

WARNING - Internet Under Attack - MUST READ
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=526.0

Copyright Wars - Blogs vs AP and Reuters
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1576.0

Internet Wars and Java Attacks
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=138.0

::)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: thorfourwinds on September 23, 2012, 11:38:08 PM
(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/PeterMacRabun_zps309d14e7.png)

Photo credit our friend: Peter MacIntosh (http://www.mcintoshmountains.com/)


Greetings and Happy Sunday (here in Rabun County) from TEAM RABUN:

So we were innocently tooling along just now with more Fukushima updates (Debris Field Update) and wondered WTF was going on as ALL of our 'embedded' YouTube vids TODAY looked OK when previewed, but would not activate.

Then, BLOOEY!


Bumped off the web.

Ran diagnostics and got this:


(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/MacKeeper23Sept12105099840TB_zps67fc1d7f.png)



WTF ?


That be a

10 million,
509 thousand,
984.0 TB


DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK
not-so-casually directed our way...



Game on!


So, exactly how much is that?


Terabyte:

A Terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes, or 1,000 Gigabytes.


To put it in some perspective, a Terabyte could hold about 3.6 million 300 Kilobyte images or maybe about 300 hours of good quality video.

A Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ten Terabytes could hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress.




Looks around for brother clif high (http://halfpasthuman.com/) to appear and say,


"I told you so a year ago,
but you wouldn't listen
and refused to understand the significance."



Now, what in the world did he mean by that?   :P



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/nuclearhand_600.jpg) (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1405.0)



What, we worry?    :o

Do we think we are being targeted?    ???

We know so.    :P



(http://i1073.photobucket.com/albums/w400/thorfourwinds/Debris%20Island%20Update/dannyboes01.jpg)



Peace Love Light

tfw
   (http://serve.mysmiley.net/animals/animal0028.gif) (//http://)

Liberty & Equality or Revolution
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: thorfourwinds on September 23, 2012, 11:47:20 PM
Ummmm...

It seems that we cannot access ANY vids on PRC now.

Is this across the board?
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: undo11 on September 24, 2012, 12:37:01 AM
i'm not having any problems that i know of.
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: burntheships on September 24, 2012, 12:41:39 AM
A few times last night, and then this afternoon ran into
what seems like server issues.

Chatted with Zorgon, he says he has tracked this down and
its not servers. So...maybe we are getting hit by bot traffic?
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: zorgon on September 24, 2012, 12:50:43 AM
Quote from: thorfourwinds on September 23, 2012, 11:47:20 PM
It seems that we cannot access ANY vids on PRC now.
Is this across the board?


had that yesterday... was a firefox adobe flash issue  They just suddenly stopped working. looked online and found a fix. Had to disable older versions of adobe flash and reload current copy

Firefox can load website but can't play video from youtube (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/751275)


Youtube videos won't play after Flash 10 upgrade - fixed - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkuwvGul3fM
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: ArMaP on September 24, 2012, 01:36:01 AM
Quote from: thorfourwinds on September 23, 2012, 11:38:08 PM
DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK
not-so-casually directed our way...
Do you have something more understandable for those that do not follow that type of thing than that strange program that identifies what you call "denial of service attacks" as "wasted disk space"?

As it is, all your posts are as useful as if they were in Chinese, I think you are the only person that understands them (I suppose you understand them ;) ).

Thanks in advance. :)
Title: Re: This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again
Post by: zorgon on September 24, 2012, 01:40:48 AM
i agree with ArMaP

your screen capture shows it as wasted disk space... so that would be on your personal machine. Any attemptd to do a DOS attack against the forum would show in the IP logs and I don't see even a gigabyte of attempts knocking at the door...

So yeah  I too am confused at what the issue is

The video thing has to be on the individual computer because Pegasus is not hosting the videos, merely embedding a link to youtube