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Massive DDoS, what can I do? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "I run a smallish hosting company and one of my customers was recently targeted by a *colossal* denial of service attack (somewhere just south of 3 gigabits per second, and it's going on as I type this message). My ISP has been taken down and supposedly even one of the major networks they peer with is seeing saturation-level traffic.

I'm at a loss here, I don't know what to do. The attack has been going on for three days straight at this point, from various IP's that change so frequently we are unable to null route them. The routers are receiving so much damned traffic that I can't even see where the traffic is coming from.

I'm lost. HELP!"

Comment: Re:"Raises" questions ? (Score -1) 324

by Karunamon (#34142052) Attached to: MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects
Yeah, no. Unless Microsoft is going to.. say.. Dell, and saying we won't give you a discount on licenses if you install McAfee or Norton as opposed to MSE, this isn't the same thing at all. Go look up what *actually* happened before shooting off your mouth. It wasn't including IE or WMP that got Microsoft in hot water, its the other crap they did to make those dominant.

Comment: Misleading. Has nothing to do with antipiracy (Score -1) 111

by Karunamon (#34070878) Attached to: Early Kinect Games Kill Buyers' Access To Xbox Live
Okay. Have you ever noticed that when you put a new game in your 360 for the first time, the first thing it does is ask to download an update from MS? Even if you just got the game on launch day? What's happening here is that the kinect software initiates its own firmware upgrade to make sure things work. That's fine, but when you actually load up the game, it tries to contact Microsoft for a non existent update. Can anyone with an xbox tell me what happens if you decline an update? Yup. Booted off of live until you accept it. There's some kind of version mismatching going on here. Nothing quite so tacky as a failed antipiracy method.

Comment: Re:Improper Takedown? (Score 0, Insightful) 189

by Karunamon (#33955650) Attached to: Universal Sends DMCA Takedown On 1980 Report
Um... yes it is. Go look at any DMCA request form online (even YouTube's). You have to attest, under penalty of perjury, that you own or hold rights to the work that you're reporting as infringing. The only reason that Universal and the other MafiAA jagoffs can get away with this is because countersuing is long and expensive.

Comment: You're kidding, right? (Score 1, Insightful) 2058

by Karunamon (#33808712) Attached to: Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee
That's a load of sh*t and you know it. Why not put out the fire and then bill him for the $75? Having them show up but refuse to put water to flame is just plain mean on a level I don't quite have the words to describe. And they *did* have to show up - to make sure the neighbor's houses didn't burn down. I'd say the FD should be on the hook for the cost of the house, reckless endangerment, and cruelty to animals.
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Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee 2058

Posted by samzenpus
from the deadly-serious-homeowner's-association dept.
Dthief writes "From MSNBC: 'Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, along with three dogs and a cat. "They could have been saved if they had put water on it, but they didn't do it," Cranick told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. The fire started when the Cranicks' grandson was burning trash near the family home. As it grew out of control, the Cranicks called 911, but the fire department from the nearby city of South Fulton would not respond.'"
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GOG.com shutdown confirmed to be a hoax->

Submitted by Karunamon
Karunamon writes "This Sunday, GOG.com disappeared, replaced with a vague message from its creators about the website’s closure. It read, in part, that “GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form.” People were understandably upset. Good Old Games are a digital distributor of old, DRM-free games, and a well-respected company. People were sad to see them close down... But it turned out they weren’t closing. Tomorrow, the site will re-launch, out of beta with some new features and some new games, but fundamentally unchanged. The closure was a hoax."
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