That's unfortunate. but it's probably due to the people they are harboring there, all the FatPeopleHate, etc guys. I'm sure there's some form of vigilante justice going on and a keyboard cowboy is trying to make them suffer for it.
not really. DDOS is distributed. Same with the implicatons of a botnet. You need multiple exploited computers from multiple different internet locations to execute this.
Doing it yourself, out of your house wont allow you to consume more than your contracted ISP bandwidth. So you would need to exploit other machines on different networks to form a botnet.
DDOS is harder to mitigate because the connections come from thousands, if not more, public IP's using the cumulative bandwith to choke the target (assuming the target has less bandwidth available than the aggregate of the infected source machines..
However you can CONTRIBUTE to a ddos by running LOIC. Which I wouldn't recommend to most as the legalities behind knowingly doing so are dubious at best I believe.
That's unfortunate. but it's probably due to the people they are harboring there, all the FatPeopleHate, etc guys. I'm sure there's some form of vigilante justice going on and a keyboard cowboy is trying to make them suffer for it.
A DDoS isn't that hard these days either. You can just pay someone with a botnet to do it.
Yea, the funny thing is, there's an application for it LOIC, you can create your own botnet.
not really. DDOS is distributed. Same with the implicatons of a botnet. You need multiple exploited computers from multiple different internet locations to execute this.
Doing it yourself, out of your house wont allow you to consume more than your contracted ISP bandwidth. So you would need to exploit other machines on different networks to form a botnet.
DDOS is harder to mitigate because the connections come from thousands, if not more, public IP's using the cumulative bandwith to choke the target (assuming the target has less bandwidth available than the aggregate of the infected source machines..
However you can CONTRIBUTE to a ddos by running LOIC. Which I wouldn't recommend to most as the legalities behind knowingly doing so are dubious at best I believe.