The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet

The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet. We wrote about the attack last week. At the time, it was a large attack, sending 85Gbps of traffic. Since then, the attack got much worse. Here are some of the technical details of what we've seen. Growth Spurt On Monday, March 18, 2013 Spamhaus contacted CloudFlare regarding an attack they were seeing against their website spamhaus.org. They signed up for CloudFlare...

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Spamhaus’ attackers turned DNS into a weapon of mass destruction

A little more than a year ago, details emerged about an effort by some members of the hacktivist group Anonymous to build a new weapon to replace their aging denial-of-service arsenal. The new weapon would use the Internet's Domain Name Service as a force-multiplier to bring the servers of those who offended the group to their metaphorical knees. Around the same time, an alleged plan for an Anonymous operation, "Operation Global Blackout" (later dismissed by some security experts and Anonymous members as a "massive troll"), sought to use the DNS service against the very core of the...

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DDoS attack against Spamhaus later targeted Tier 1 providers

IDG News Service - A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started more than a week ago and targeted the Spamhaus Project, an organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and London that maintains databases of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, domain names and other Internet resources involved in spam,...

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Spamhaus attacks expose huge open DNS server dangers

Massive distributed denial-of-service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System (DNS) servers. The attacks on Spamhaus that began March 19 were apparently launched by a group opposed to the Geneva, Switzerland-based volunteer organization's antispam work. Several security firms described the attacks on the organization as the largest -- by far -- ever publicly known DDoS attacks...

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The OSI Reference Model In brief

One of the greatest functions of the OSI specifications is to assist in data transfer between disparatehosts—meaning, for example, that they enable us to transfer data between a Unix hostand a PC or a Mac.The OSI isn’t a physical model, though. Rather, it’s a set of guidelines that applicationdevelopers can use to create and implement applications that run on a network. It also providesa framework for creating and implementing networking standards, devices, and internetworkingschemes.The OSI has...

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Police Fighters

Game Description: Sun City is the city of the future, but the rising crime rate makes this place dangerous for living. Extremists block roads, criminals crash cars and hackers override the city’s automatic traffic control. The Special Supercar Police Unit was organized to blow the whistle on these practices.Download this free full version game today and help police to battle against crime. Free Game Features: - Real action game, vehicular combat; - Modern 3D graphics; - Extraordinarily addictive game play; - Unique power-ups; - Gorgeous effects, huge explosions! - Original...

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Sudden Strike

Game Description: During World War II, Crimea was a scene of some of the bloodiest battles. Finding yourself in a battle-scarred world, you will assume the role of a military commander in charge of an occupied town seeking to survive and fight.Download free full version game today and experience the intensity and adrenaline rush of real combat. Free Game Features: - Award-winning strategy game; - More than 50 missions; - Increased degree of realism: completely overhauled unit values; - More than 50 new units; - Fight battles in three difficulty levels; - Controllable boats...

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Deadly Race

Game Description: In the beginning of 21th century global energy crisis wakened World War III. A lot of cities were destroyed and people abandoned them searching for better life. Now these abandoned cities are used as race tracks for a new kind of popular entertainment - Apocalypse Motor Racing. Daredevils from different corners of the world drive to victory through wrecked cars of their competitors in this deadly racing.Download free full version game today and try to win Apocalypse Motor Racing or try to survive! ...

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Star Defender 4

Game Description: Star Defender 4 is a breathtaking space shooter that still has all the best features of Star Defender series. You’ll be dazzled by splendidly craft graphics and music. Face tons of new enemies with a unique style of behavior and new ways of attacking in Star Defender 4. Use new Star Defender 4 weapons: machine-gun, saw, flame thrower, acid bomb and cutter! And also the best weapons from the previous game: parasitron, lasers, infector, ball lightning, missiles, homing laser and barriers! Blast through more than 100 levels, 8 original missions and of course huge impressive...

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Offroad Racers

Game Description: The Off-road Racers contest is an event where monster trucks, rally cars, pickups and buggies compete with each other. Opponents can try to stop racers on their way to finish in three different racing modes. Download free full version pc game today, complete 18 stages and win the contest! Free Game Features: - Real offroad racing game; - 3 different racing modes; - 18 offroad stages; - Modern 3D graphics; - Extraordinarily addictive game play; - Original soundtrack and powerful sound effects; - Free full version game without any limitations. ...

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Resident Evil 6 PC benchmark released

Capcom has released a free Resident Evil 6 Benchmark tool for PC players. The tool will let users put their rig to the test ahead of the game's xxx release on March 22. Capcom announced last month that the PC version will come with a new mode, 'The Mercenaries: No Mercy'. It's said to be a more challenging version of the existing 'Mercenaries' mode with "more enemies on screen than ever before", but also "the opportunity to rack up even higher combo scores". Also announced (through that link) were plans to release a 'Siege mode' for the console versions of the game, an online multiplayer...

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Nikon licenses Microsoft patent to use in Android-enabled cameras

Amidst all the recent patent cases revolving Android and smartphone operating systems in general, Microsoft has been able to get in on the action thanks to a patent it owns dealing with all portable devices running Android. Nikon has recently come to terms with Microsoft in regards to current and future Android-based cameras which will likely require the renowned photography giant to pay an undisclosed royalty fee for every device sold. This likely means that Nikon will have to fork over some cash for the current Nikon Coolpix S800C released last October with Android 2.3 Gingerbread...

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Successor of Xbox 360

The much awaited next generation gaming console from Microsoft is rumored to be showcased in the month of April. According to a report from Computer and Video Games, Redmond is currently planning to hold a press event in the month of April and the successor of the Xbox 360, which is reportedly named Xbox 720, might be unveiled in the event. Furthermore, users at NeoGAF have noticed a domain named XboxEvent.com, which has been registered by Eventcore. The agency has handled many of the previous product launch preparations for the Windows giants and it looks like the agency has already...

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countdown to Xbox 720 just begun?

Xbox Live’s head Larry Hyrb otherwise known as Major Nelson, posted a countdown on its blog to E3 2013. It counts the days until June 11 this year when the expo kicks off and the text says: And it’s on… Since the Xbox 360 is nearing the end of its cycle it just make sense we see the next generation announced this year. Nintendo already announced and launched its next-gen console – the Wii U. Sony has also spilled the beans on PlayStation 4, although we can only expect it to launch next year. Unlike previous years, Microsoft seems to push the PR for E3 quite early and I bet we’ll...

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Skype 2.0 for iPhone now available, brings free voice calls over 3G

It was about time Skype enable their voice calls over 3G in their iPhone app and now the Skype “coverage” on iPhone is extended outside Wi-Fi hotspots. There is more – all mobile iPhone Skype calls are free until August. After that you’ll need to put some credits on. You can download the new Skype 2.0 app from the Apple AppStore right away...

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Free Gmail voice calls to US and Canada extended

The web-based VoIP client in Gmail was launched several months ago with free calls to the US and Canada until the end of 2010. Well, it’s either the Christmas mood or something else, I don’t know, but Google decided to extend those free calls through the whole 2011. Sadly, as before, you’ll be charged when calling outside those two. And even if Google’s rates are pretty reasonable you still need to pay for calls to destinations other than the US and Canada. By the way, Skype’s counter-offer isn’t too shabby either. The Skype app on my computer greeted me today with a reminder that I...

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Facebook for iOS updated, now offers free calls to US and Canada

Facebook has just issued an update to its iOS application. Facebook for iOS, which is one of the prominent applications in the App Store now comes with several new features and enhanced user experience. Facebook 5.5 for iOS offers improved buttons to like, comment and share posts. The share button also allows you to re-post stories to your news feed and is available in all languages. Furthermore, you can now make free calls to US and Canada right from your iOS application. Of course, free calling uses your data plan, so make sure you have one. You can download the latest version...

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Javascript functions in Google Spreadsheets

Hello, Currently, all of my form submissions from my website are creating a copy of the information submitted and posting in on spreadsheets in Google Docs as well as forwarding the information to my specified email. When I open the form submissions that were received in my email, the from and/or reply to address contains my gmail email. I would prefer that the from and/or reply to address contain the email of the for submitter in order to reply to the appropriate email. The following...

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Cross Browser XMLHttpRequest Explained

Modern web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE7+, Opera, and Safari), include a native XMLHttpRequest object for creating AJAX requests. However, we often want to support IE6 as well, and that requrires using an ActiveXObject instead of a native XMLHttpRequest object (note, IE5 and IE5.5 are obsolete and should no longer be supported). But there is often some confusion revolving around which version(s) of MSXML to use to support IE6. Microsoft has release several versions of MSXML, but only...

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Archive for the ‘HTML’ Category External links and the target attribute

I like external pages to open in a new window. So that my page stays open. But target attribute is deprecated. If you want to validate the XHTML pages, it would result in errors. The thought behind it was to allow the user to decide for himself if he want to open a new tab or if he want to go on in the same tab. Often times users just click on the link without thinking about it. Sometimes as a web programmer it’s just too convenient to simply add ‘target=”_blank”‘ to external links. Quick and dirty. There is a Javascript-solution, though. The page itself is XHTML valid, but the behavior...

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