Are we suffering attempted DDoS attacks.

[Condobloke]

1560 online....6pm Sydney time...

@Rob

 

[Condobloke]

Here we go again ??...1295 gustes online......15:49 Sydney Australia time

@Rob
@wizardfromoz

 

[wizardfromoz]

Back to

Total: 387 (members: 2, guests: 385)

when I entered an hour later.

Maybe I scare them off?

Wiz

 

[Condobloke]

Maybe I scare them off?

maybe !!!

Maybe just a practise run ?

 

[Brickwizard]

Since @Rob turned the volume up on the filter last week, I have only gone down on last weds [3 times],

 

[KGIII]

Oddly, Google Ads offered up this link as an ad - so I clicked it. (This is a link to the page, and will not count as an ad click.)

Ransom-based DDoS Attacks

Recent cases show that attackers are willing to carry out the threat, launching large scale DDoS attacks that can overwhelm organizations.

www.cloudflare.com

 

[Condobloke]

That is a damn interesting read.

The links which lead off that article are beyond interesting !

Definitely a must read.

The three links below are examples

All the Chromium-based browsers

ZDNet has compiled a list of all the internet browsers that have been based on Chromium, the open-source browser project at the heart of Google Chrome. While initially we thought we'd find 15-20 browsers, the number of Chromium-based browsers was far larger than we expected.

www.zdnet.com

The 5 best secure browsers for privacy in 2022

What is the best browser for privacy? Brave browser is ZDNet's top choice. We analyzed specs such as cookies stored, privacy settings, and speed of the top browsers below.

www.zdnet.com

Epic Privacy Browser, a secure chromium-based web browser with Encrypted Proxy and AdBlock | a free, unlimited VPN private browser for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android

www.epicbrowser.com

 

[Brickwizard]

Dropped out 3 times again this morning only 462 online

 

[Adithyansm]

WHF is happening to the forum
After so many cloud flare screen I was able to access the forum then this happened

 

[Adithyansm]

I am unable to edit and view my alerts or any thing @Rob

 

[Brickwizard]

For some reason, I am still intermittently getting the 502 page

 

[KGIII]

I'm having a heck of a time today. The site is barely usable. 'Snot that many people online when I do get to see that page.

 

[Brickwizard]

I'm having a heck of a time today

I was out till 2pm my time, its now 7pm the site has dropped out more times than i have been able to count

 

[SpongebobFan1994]

The site crashed twice. First at 1:17pm and then again at 1:18pm (Central US time). The amount of users was 326 (which is small and makes me wonder how it could cause a DDOS).

 

[f33dm3bits]

I don't think the amount of users seen online is an indication of a ddos, ddos's are usually done with tools that generate big loads of traffic to overload the server by sending a lot of requests to the webserver. Since I would think the amount of users are counted by actual users who use a web-browser which is most likely checked by which user-agent they are using to visit the website, signed in and guests.

 

[KGIII]

Since I would think the amount of users are counted by actual users who use a web-browser which is most likely checked by which user-agent they are using to visit the website, signed in and guests.

I can only speak for SMF - it also counts bots. (Which may or may not be part of a DDoS.)

 

[Rob]

A few of em today eh? :/

 

[KGIII]

The site has been almost unusable for much of the day.

 

[Rob]

You can see what's normal and what cloudflare is seeing the past 24hrs .. strange day.

 

[KGIII]

Hmm... It looks like they ran a quick test before hammering on the server.

I wonder if it's people angry we won't let them spam the server?