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.
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.