[Eggy]

As many of you may have noticed, our servers have hardly been available since yesterday afternoon (GMT). This downtime is the result of an attempted DDoS attack on our servers.

Of course, we will try to put a stop to this as soon as possible. Please bear with us while we attempt to solve this 'problem'; we'll keep you posted.


Update:

Our apologies for the site being offline over the past day, but, as some of you may already know, we came under a DDoS attack. The attack itself was sustained and, according to our hosting company, quite large. The attack appears to have lasted from sometime yesterday afternoon until today.

The server seems fine now and hopefully we are now fully back to normal service.

[!nf3rno_5vr]

whats a DDoS attack??.......

[hellboy105]

!nf3rno_5vr, on 2007-08-04 23:45, said:

whats a DDoS attack??.......

read here

[paddyjoe]

!nf3rno_5vr, on 2007-08-04 22:45, said:

whats a DDoS attack??.......

Distributed Denial of Service. A networks of "zombie" PCs with the leading of a "master" Pc send huge amount of pings(verifying the server reachable status) to a server. As a result the attacked server goes nuts because it's unable respond to the extreme request & crash.

[dgtlchlk]

paddyjoe, on 2007-08-04 22:59, said:

Distributed Denial of Service. A networks of "zombie" PCs with the leading of a "master" Pc send huge amount of pings(verifying the server reachable status) to a server. As a result the attacked server goes nuts because it's unable respond to the extreme request & crash.

and not 4 getting

A type of denial of service attack in which an attacker uses malicious code installed on various computers to attack a single target. An attacker may use this method to have a greater effect on the target than is possible with a single attacking machine.

[bulukaki]

to be honest, I truly don't understand why some people are trying to plug other people's server. I mean, this forum is just a regular forum where members help other members in customizing their SE phones. it's not like this forum is a forum where members teach bad stuff to bring down a country or hack into the defense dept secret stuff..... why does one has to do that? just for fun? or "I'm a newbie hacker in training"?

truly unresponsible and not well mannered people!!

[Dyce9984]

couldn't have said it myself, the problem is though, when a website starts to get large it will invariably start to attract more and more unwanted attention, with all the wanted attention that it gets. It just means that we all need to be a bit more vigilant about things that's all, so;


IF ANYONE SEES ANYTHING ABNORMAL, SLOW RESPONSE ETC ETC PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO ADMIN@SE-NSE.COM where one of us will be able to pick it up, sending a PM through the page is pointless as we won't be able to access the page if you can't either,

as a whole, we appologise for any inconvenience caused and we thank you for your co-operation in this matter

[photographer]

Im glad its back on I tried like 5 times during the day to see if its back on already haha Im addicted to this forum

[Eggy]

bulukaki, on 2007-08-05 01:00, said:

to be honest, I truly don't understand why some people are trying to plug other people's server. I mean, this forum is just a regular forum where members help other members in customizing their SE phones. it's not like this forum is a forum where members teach bad stuff to bring down a country or hack into the defense dept secret stuff..... why does one has to do that? just for fun? or "I'm a newbie hacker in training"?

truly unresponsible and not well mannered people!!

Competition can play a part in this I suppose, or some people simply may not like (one of) us...

[xell]

Good to be back.

[dgtlchlk]

its could also be see as a "compliment" of sorts, that you have a site worthy of some botnet attention.
i would hazard a guess at the attack was/will/is being co-ordinated by someone who is pissed off @ se-nse in general, a user,
maybe some UK cell owner with links to worldwide underground programming group ( definatley not on irc) (botnet not controlled via irc either?) who all congregate in say 1 place (known only to them) using some obscure p2p or chat protocol for communication, but all them people are individually into all kinds of things, like anyone is, but they get rubbed up the wrong way by some n33k online,
so they jump over to obscure protocol p2p, communicate the www and or IP of cheeky/annoying/disrespectful persons they have encountered, so some person on the other side of the world logs in to his (homemade) control panel, verify they are the botmaster and type IP, click "go" and up to 50.000 machines all over the world start to request things from the server that it just hasnt heard of, or just cant answer fast eneough so takes timeout.

and this isnt going to get any better anytime soon, as home connection speeds (upstream) are ever increasing, knowledge is more available, anyone can have broadband, trojans get more sophisticated as do the methods of deploying them, and people will always get pissed off. its just life, and even if you had the actual IP of the person resposible not one thing would happen to them if you reported to their isp their activities, as the isp's just send a warning email saying such and such activity has been coming from your IP etc, you reply with thanks as their email alerted you to the fact that you were "infected" by a trojan which was participating in therse terrible deeds, i know of one case where the isp dropped the customer and that was because he took out his own isp
and that was in romania lol,

did you also know that online credit card fraud is not a reportable ( to the police) offence in the UK!! point being their is a really really large amount of things that take precedence when it comes to taking action against almost untracable denial of service.

my 2p worth.

[justme]

Eggy, on 2007-08-05 09:19, said:

Competition can play a part in this I suppose, or some people simply may not like (one of) us...

Well...either SE themselves or Topsony in fear

I simply love SE-NSE and I'm glad it's up again!

[number1]

yay se-nse is back it's been not working for bout three days since friday afternoon it just worked now

[Eggy]

number1, on 2007-08-07 13:12, said:

yay se-nse is back it's been not working for bout three days since friday afternoon it just worked now

Unfortunately, we don't know for how long.

These guys are still trying to attack us. They claim that someone offended one of their members...

[Karun]

Photographer, on 2007-08-05 09:02, said:

Im glad its back on I tried like 5 times during the day to see if its back on already haha Im addicted to this forum

same here.....

[number1]

this site runs a bit slow and still crashes now and again almost better

[number1]

lostcontact, on 2007-08-07 13:03, said:

Personally I'd like to do a DDoS attack to the Roads and Traffic Authority, they're well out of order, screwing us teenagers over at the moment...aah well.

dam right attack a site worth attacking they cost us money it's probley there fought r insurance is so high

[Dr.Uberveguad]

and it keeps happen again, and again...

[Eggy]

Dr.Uberveguad, on 2007-08-07 16:04, said:

and it keeps happen again, and again...

That's because they are still trying to attack us. However, we're not going to wait until they've finished...

[Eggy]

Update:

http://forums.se-nse...showtopic=13346