A website dedicated to leaking personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents was reportedly subject to a cyber attack that its founder believes may have originated in Russia.
Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, told The Daily Beast that his website, ICE List, came under cyberattack Tuesday evening after the publication reported Skinner planned to release personal information, obtained through a whistleblower, about thousands of employees.
The attack, known as a Direct Denial of Service, is when a perpetrator seeks to disrupt access to a network or service by flooding it with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload the system.
Skinner told The Daily Beast that a massive number of IPs began accessing the website and a large amount of the traffick appeared to come from Russia – leading the founder to speculate the attack originated there.
https://icelist.is/ is still online and responsive.
Of course it’s down. Whether DDoS’d or Hugged-to-death, it’s vulnerable. Why don’t they just distribute it as a torrent?
magnets, how do they work?
Is it possible for somebody that did download it to put up the torrent themselves?
Why don’t they just distribute it as a torrent?
Probably because they want ordinary people to be able to access it.
How’s that working out for them?
Why don’t they also distribute it as a torrent?
Russia loves the chaos in the US.
Would doxxing all these chuds really make there be less chaos though?
I guess we have to ask Russia why they did it, since they obviously did.
Since when did we start calling it direct denial of service? Hasn’t it always been distributed denial of service?
Since AI is writing the articles and people are doing a bad job editing the output, or not even bothering to edit it.
Might not be distributed. They could have just found a really slow page and loaded it in a maximally inconvenient manner. The thing is a wiki running on php and mediawiki has a lot of dynamic pages. It may also be a typo
At that point what you’re arguing is just a denial of service (DoS). These things have been figured out for decades. There is no need to defend poor journalism.
it says “a massive number of IPs began accessing the website” which means it’s distributed. Mind, they also spelt traffic wrong so who knows.
When Putin is helping you out then you absolutely know you are on the wrong side, even though you’ll not admit to it. A bunch of indirect russian stooges dressed up in military gear, all prancing around like 15 year olds acting tough to attract the girlies.
Girlies who they hope are 15.
all prancing around like 15 year olds acting tough to attract the girlies.
No, I think it’s just bigotry.
Come to think of it, do we even know these ice agents aren’t Russian nationals?
IPFS!! Publish it!
