Archive for November, 2006

Woeful

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Well a crap weekend for English national sport, Cricket well enough said about that and tbh it is expected that the first test after the ashes win last year with Australia will result in an Australian win. We won the ashes due to the support of a home crowd, plus ...

Figured out more on the DDoS front

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Well figured out more about the nature of the DDoS, they are attempting a Keep-Alive exploit to starve the machine of resources. Plus spent a good chunk of yesterday contacting ISPs to get machines taken down, with some success..

DDoS by BBC Watchdog

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

So watching BBC's Watchdog programme this evening, they have the spot about an airline called 'flywho', so go to visit the web site, manage to view a couple of pages, then all of a sudden it slows down an then I get this... Nice the power of the BBC to arrange ...

Hmm…

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

More attempts to flood the VDot boxen... More hosts in the iptables block list...

Bit of a DDoS attack.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Well VDot seems to have had a bit of a DDoS attack mounted at it, dropped some details here on the VDot dev blog.

Time Flies…

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Was thinking something today upon hearing Tony Blair's most recent statement about Afghanistan. He said we'll stay there till the job is done, interestingly we have been there now 5 years fighting, what is funny is that the Russian invaded in December 79 and where there fighting the same people ...

Job Hunt

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Well still hunting for a job and atm it isn't going that well. Have had several interviews, there was a couple of good chances but, one fell by the wayside as they decided to not progress to a second interview after stringing me about for a couple of weeks. Another ...