Comments on: Was Yesterday’s Twitter DDoS Attack Cyber Warfare

By: karyna

karyna — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:30:59 +0000

your personal computer is a tool for them.

By: karyna

karyna — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:30:03 +0000

well, aren’t they attacking servers ? Livejournal has been dead for a long while now. Some servers with some blogs work, some are not. I think it has nothing to do with your personal computer, they are trying to get large servers of social networks. Besides, you can not post anything in your blog with the name Cyxymu. So, your personal computer is not a target for these hackers.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:54:29 +0000

Keeping your computer’s protection up-to-date could prevent it from becoming one of the thousands of zombie machines used in a DDoS attack.

By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:23:36 +0000

Thanks for your kind contribution Eldinosky: valid point.

I didn’t mean to insult you–but there are those of us who could learn a thing-or-two from a five-year-old. :)

Also, I wasn’t suggesting that keeping your computer’s protection up-to-date could avert a major attack like yesterday, but every day smaller websites fall victim to DDoS attacks. We could prevent those maybe, no?

By: Eldinovsky

Eldinovsky — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:14:14 +0000

Hi,

Last sentence is so stupid and for little kids age 5. Why?
If you keep your computer up to date, and all those stuff needed for “normal” working, you are not even with that prepared for DDoS attacks.

Computers with very fast internet connections comes together and sending too many packages to one adress or one computer, and those attacked computers are not able to opet all those packages, that’s why is connection too much slow or “dead” for time DDoS attacks are “active”

There is no possible protection for DDoS except hardware devices made for that and dedicated servers which isolate IP adresses from attackers.

Update od your computer doesn’t have nothing with protection of DDoS.