ddos attack

I don't get it. What is there to gain from making an army of bots attack the FreeBSD Forums? Nothing critical gets disrupted if these forums don't work for a while. No large media outlet is going to report on something like this. No cryptocurrency is going to change hands in the form of a...

As you will have noticed, the Forums are either very hard to reach or very hard to use. The Forums server in itself is entirely functional, but the 'front door' is being hammered by many thousands of IP addresses opening and closing the Forums website at a large rate (for the interested: nginx...

I have collected over 589 000 IP addresses from a DDoS attack in a text file. It's collected from /var/log/httpd-access.log with awk, like this: awk '$11 == "404" && index($9, "/url-being-attacked") {print $1}' /var/log/httpd-access.log | sort -n >> /usr/local/etc/pf.ip.ddos.list Then I'm...

I'm not writing this to troll. I read reviews on "The Register" and don't understand why the attacks have such severe consequences? Why isn't the security paradigm for critical infrastructure being rebuilt? Why do convenience and comfort dominate over security system add-ons? Why is the entire...

https://termbin.com/yxu8 Having trouble to get fail2ban to work https://termbin.com/o7k6 there are no bans taking place and the same ips keep at it and I can't stop them I don't know what to do ... pf and ipfw and the other things are complicated... in freebsd and there's so many rules and...