This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again

[Somamech]

 

[zorgon]

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.

[Pimander]

Is that a lot?

Put it this way, you won't get than amount of data through an ethernet cable or a wireless connection.

[ArMaP]

Is that a lot?

It's six times this year's traffic.

[zorgon]

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

[Caver78]

somebody ought to start a thread for internet security....just observing.....hahaha
[some of us kids are ''special bus'']

[zorgon]

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

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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

[thorfourwinds]

Photo credit our friend: Peter MacIntosh


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:






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 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?   







What, we worry?   

Do we think we are being targeted?   

We know so.   







Peace Love Light

tfw   

Liberty & Equality or Revolution

[thorfourwinds]

Ummmm...

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

Is this across the board?

[undo11]

i'm not having any problems that i know of.

[burntheships]

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?

[zorgon]

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


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

[ArMaP]

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.

[zorgon]

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