If you wanna start a fight with 4chan, good luck. You'll need it. On topic. DDos attacks are bad. -- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
Since I couldn't do a whole lot during the events of the attack, I decided to do some research and found that there are groups of hackers that one can hire to take down a site. So if this wasn't just an Anon attempt to annoy us, it could be that someone was paid to take us down just because whatever search they did happened to have our site fairly high up in the results.
I feel like that's just overanalyzation of a worst-case scenario. The most likely reason is probably some -removed- who thinks he's cool because he attacked a pony forum. This world is just full of douchebags...
My dad deals with security back-ups and such for computers and such all the time, kinda his job as an IT director, but sadly I don't think I could recruit his help in this case... And how I know he's good at that kind of thing is that he is in a very select group of IT people (5000 worldwide) that the FBI/CIA send a warning message to when they fear an attack.
It's not quite as simple as some of you on here think it may be. ^^ I'm pretty sure it was a DDoS too, as there were 10,000 guests online as it was happening. But it really isn't as simple as just installing some software which will stop this. If anyone remembers Lulzsec, it was an Anonymous group which DDoS'd large websites. They managed to take down Mastercard, Paypal (Visa I think), and a few other websites. If there was a simple solution to DDoS attacks, you would assume that companies with the millions of dollars behind them, such as Paypal and Mastercard, would have invested in them previous. Unfortunately there isn't. Although an important thing to remember is why someone does this kind of thing, and most of the time it's for the attention that comes with it. Thus, I believe that making a fuss about the attack, saying "RAR IMA KILL PEOPLE FOR DIS" does completely the opposite to deteer people. If whoever did it reads it, it does nothing except make them feel like their attack was successful, as you've given them exactly the kind of reaction they were hoping for. The forum's back up now, just enjoy it ^^
Good point. If this was all on one person, it would be cyberbullying. The best thing I can think of to combat it is to move on like nothing happened.
Yeah, DDoSing is only going to become more common, best we can do is just to keep on rollin'. ^^ Love and Tolerate =D
