> “There’s nothing really new about [this type of DDoS attack]. We’ve seen them for at least the last three years, they tend to be difficult to stop,” says Matthew Prince, the CEO of the Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. “But Dyn would see them on a regular basis, we see them on a regular basis. The fact that this is causing Dyn so many problems is pretty good evidence that this is an extremely large attack.”
Either a very very motivated private group (liek PoodleCorp!) with a lot of spare resources and skill did this, or a malicious state actor decided to have some fun.
@Zacharee1 That's like taking a picture of the screen with a phone, uploading it to DropBox, sync-ing the image, and then uploading that to SkyDrive so they can show their screen to someone
This has been happening for a while. AFAICR, it didn't happen before I upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04.
I will be using my computer for a while, and then I'll notice a dark patch that stays in the same location on my screen. It lloks like a 'burnt' patch on a CRT monitor.
The only way that I can g...
summons up the power of Cthulu and Zalgo to strike the Star Wall, only to have the ritual spells fizzle out, so he decides to sacrifice an old computer to extremely heavy mathematical processing and fire instead
I Did an upgrade hoping to be helpful(groan) and now when I do things on this Thinkpad T410 such as open up documents all of the font is faded and caribou(?) is failing and mostly everything on the laptop is running slow and opening slow. Before the upgrade none of this stuff was happening, has t...
@Serg OpenVPN configured on an external server (VPS), connect your system through OpenVPN and then all your data is sent over that VPN tunnel
takes more configuraiton and an OpenVPN server/provider
but it is more 'guaranteed' than SOCKS proxies, IMO, at reducing sniffing
I could probably set up an OpenVPN tunnel for you to here, but I'm a little stingy with network access permissions today. Not to mention it's probably a slower netowrk (residential, not corproate)
@Serg I've seen VPNs to be more effective than pure HTTP/HTTPS proxies, since the HTTP/HTTPS proxy data can still be intercepted. Can't intercept what's encrypted and sent over a different tunnel altogether, regardless of HTTP or HTTPS requests.
well, i don't intend to continuously use VPN, i only need occasional IP hiding or at least get chinese websites, because they're blocked on my University's wifi
VPN everything's self-contained over the tunnel, and encrypted between you and the OpenVPN server. Including DNS lookups, if you configure it to use different DNS like GoogleDNS
Someone asked for a "windows-like" watch dog program today to e-mail him when files on his laptop were copied to USB thumb drive. Celtioc Warrior commented "No it can't be done, use a password like everyone else". But I think it is possible, maybe there are debug hooks in USB driver that can be modified to redirect output from syslog to file that can be e-mailed?
This has been happening for a while. AFAICR, it didn't happen before I upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04.
I will be using my computer for a while, and then I'll notice a dark patch that stays in the same location on my screen. It lloks like a 'burnt' patch on a CRT monitor.
The only way that I can g...
Can I speak with someone before buying to confirm they can help? Need to do this ASAP. Thanks so much
