I've been hearing all about reddits downtime. Now rumors about CBC and RT getting hit. I've heard from several sources today, say that cellphone internet connectivity has gone down, (localized to single towers rather than wide-spread). I've been denied access on voat and 4chan several times today thanks to my random-profile extension (something that doesn't happen to me regularly), which leads me to believe that hosts are tightening restrictions in an attempt to control these attacks.
So, anyone know whats going on? The conspiracy theorists are out in force on /pol/ right now.
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Sciency ago
That's kind of what I'm thinking as well. It makes sense, because from what I understand the attacks have been rolling from one thing to the next, not attacking multiple places at the same time. Trying to put a number on the bandwidth required to bring down each site, while not giving away too many IPs from their botnet. If thats whats happening, its actually kinda scary. Whomever is planning this theoretical attack would be hoping to maximize the coverage, using only the necessary resources to get the job done...
At this point I'm basing assumptions on assumptions, but... If they are finding the minimum attack bandwidth needed to cripple each site, the number wont stay the same for long. If this is in fact a test run, I'm worried the real deal is coming sooner than later.
Morpheus ago
The Australian Census website shat itself when everyone went to do it the other night. They said it was a cyber attack.