This is why people were saying some teenage kid with a credit card could have taken down North Korea’s Internet. Kim Jong-Un was probably playing on his Xbox and pissed off some gamer. Although 9.5 hours is a long DDoS, usually it’s something like 5 minutes.
Hard to believe ragebooter.net is still around and operating so openly. From: George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Is this what a dDOS attack looks like? Welcome to teh suck. And the target is almost always an Xbox kid. On 12/24/2014 10:13 AM, Bill Prince via Af wrote: One of our routers showed a massive increase in traffic last night around 19:15 Pacific time (see below). It didn't crash, but got super busy during that time, and appeared to be "locked up". Nothing shows in the logs, but a segment of our network appeared to be unavailable for a few minutes. By the time I figured out what was going on, the traffic "went away". -- -- bp <part {dash} 15 {at} SkylineBroadbandService {dot} com>
