4chan hit by DDoS assault

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Register

Controversial image board 4chan came under a denial of service attack on Tuesday.

A status message on 4chan's status boards (below) reported that the birthplace of anonymous and home of midget porn had joined the "ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal" as victims of a denial of service attack.

Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.—an exclusive club!

The Anonymous contingent of 4chan was behind the attacks on Mastercard et al over the refusal of many elements of the banking industry to do business with Wikileaks. In response, patriot hacktivists have launched denial of service attacks on 4chan IRC channels.

Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/29/4chan_ddos/

[Kitsune]

1. I just checked, 4chan.org is responding just fine.

Maybe it's already been resolved? :shrug:

[Autumn Colors]

2. Working fine for me (nt)

[bemildred]

3. This is most amusing.

Hackers of different political stripes duking it out on the Internet with DDoS attacks.
:popcorn:

[hlthe2b]

4. Not sure why MAD MAX comes to mind....

maybe the Cyber version?

[bemildred]

5. Well I have no doubt there will be a movie someday, perhaps several.

You don't get new movie ideas every day.

[davidwparker]

14. Yes, I thought that myself.

What is 4chan's retaliation going to be?

Maybe we can end the killing and duke it out by causing strategic denial of service attacks. Visa gets taken out one day; Mastercom the next; Pizza Hut on the third day.

[anamandujano]

17. Pass the popcorn please.

:rofl: I love this stuff.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. 4chan... probably one of the last sites on the web you'd want to fuck with.

Whoever is responsible better hope they don't get found out.

[hlthe2b]

7. How many people are on 4chan?

I know they have the reputation as the ultimate "renegades," of the web, but frankly I just don't get it--who they are and what motivates them...

[Mr Generic Other]

16. 4chan posts constitute about 4% of all internet traffic.

i suspect that those who launched the attack were the cia.

[Posteritatis]

21. You're probably a few orders of magnitude too high there. (nt)

[-..__...]

11. People give them far too much credit...

at worst, they're mildly annoying.

A serious threat or someone not to be fucked with... far from it.

They're just as often to be on the losing end of things as they are winning.

[boppers]

20. MLK was a loser, too.

So was Ghandi.

[drgonzosghost]

8. Probably trying to get revenge for the Fox News raid last week...

The site is fine as the admins know a thing or two about the nature of Ion Cannons. And yeah, reprisal is going to be grossly disproportionate...

[-..__...]

9. MOOT IS OLEV...

OLEV IS MOOT.

DDoS?

Meh... they go through that every so often, and they bring it upon themselves.

If it's not a DDoS attack... theyr'e getting spamed/flooded, etc.

[Pavulon]

10. boxxy wars redux...(nt)

[boppers]

18. Dayum. Boxxy on DU.

The world gets smaller everyday.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boxxy <--for those not in the loop.

[toddaa]

12. 4chan hit by DDoS is news?

Wake me when it's not getting hit by DDoS.

[MedicalAdmin]

13. Patriot hacktivist says ...

"it worked! Hey ma, make me a sandwich ... Is the laundry done? I'm outa tighty whiteys. "

So some rw divot heads did a dDos attack? So what? The news here is that for the first time it was some self proclaimed "patriot" honkin his own horn. Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I took down 4 chan. Hey ma, where my pimple cream?

[girl gone mad]

15. The teenagers in my house informed me..

that it happens all the time.

Having run networks popular with hackers, I can confirm that some do like to shit where they sleep, so to speak.

[boppers]

19. 4chan is expected to be random.

That's part of the draw.