I'm quite surprised academics got the go-ahead to use actual booters and do network attacks over the internet.
Back when I was in academia my final year paper/project/dissertation was largely on DDoS methods and detection/mitigation tactics in IaaS environments; but in order to keep in line...
I'm starting to think they might like the publicity from incidents like this. The price change situation a few years back had a lot of people talking about them.
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XOR.DDoS is a nasty one. We've got bruteforce protection in place and filter outbound attacks.
The "Tsunami" attack in particular managed to avoid our existing filters the first time we saw it. Easily enough blocked, but by that point there had been a 900mbps attack for about half an hour...
Plus just because abuse has happened doesn't mean it was intentional.
I'm sure many customers would be mad if they got terminated the moment their server was compromised, rather than it being suspended and given a chance to say "wasn't me", look into it and solve the problem.
Sounds like a failing drive. Run a smart long test on all of your drives. It's common for a VPS or few which has some data on a bad sector to have insane load before the drive dies. The other VPS's might not have a very high load
The Tories have been in power for ~4-5 years (though - their coalition partners the liberal democrats were stopping extreme invasions to civil liberties). They've now got another 5 years after the recent election - but without the lib dems holding them back.
Within the first week, they've...
Previously they couldn't use evidence obtained through unlawful surveillance or hacking in court. Now - I'm not so sure there's barriers preventing that...
I'm honestly curious when they start making other crimes legal for them and not for us.
A bit of government breaking and entering, maybe a bit of murder on the side (they'll probably do Scottish nationalists first. I'd better hide). In all seriousness though, this Tory government is pathetic...