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Found it interesting that today at around 11:00 in the morning, our school's website WAS SLOWWWWW!!!!

And now they posted a bulletin that they had a DDoS attack on their website network. Im just wondering, would It have to have been done by someone in the network?

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You're not fooling anyone...

 

we're on to you.

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I was in out tech class during that time...

Just kidding we used iPads today :P

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Someone in the network might have done it.

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Lol!

 

My old friends would do it daily, while on the network in the lab. Too watch everyone faces as the network slowed to a point where nothing would load was kinda funny, but really evil - part of the reasons they are my "old" friends. 

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Someone in the network might have done it.

I cant imagine anyone technologically advanced enough to do that at my school :P  

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This happened at my school once before. I managed to located it through our switches and it turned out to be a hub in a classroom that was repeating itself during a multicasting of our imaging software, at that time Novel.

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This happened at my school once before. I managed to located it through our switches and it turned out to be a hub in a classroom that was repeating itself during a multicasting of our imaging software, at that time Novel.

Some kid at our school was taken out of class last friday when the Assistant Principal asked to look in his backpack. When I asked him, he said she was looking  for a computer mouse. And he said that the AP said that somebody stole one of the classrooms' routers

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Some kid at our school was taken out of class last friday when the Assistant Principal asked to look in his backpack. When I asked him, he said she was looking  for a computer mouse. And he said that the AP said that somebody stole one of the classrooms' routers

If the routers are access points and not actual end user routers there's no point considering you need a server to configure them. Atleast with CISCO routers/AP.

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If the routers are access points and not actual end user routers there's no point considering you need a server to configure them. Atleast with CISCO routers/AP.

It was the website's network that got DDoS'd

Dont know if it's local or off site. (there is a server in the office)

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we crashed the server at our school because we tried to copy 1TB on data onto a different drive.. they weren't very happy with us when they found out (this was back like 7 years ago)

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who would want to do so?

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my university's internet is basically a small municipal ISP. they have a gross connection of 13.5 Gigabits per second, with every building connected to the backbone by at least a gigabit fiber link, with the library and other high traffic buildings connected to the backbone at 10GBit. the busiest floor of the library still gets 600mbps on wired during peak hours.

you'd need a botnet the size of a city to make a dent.

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What school was it? If it's a "known to lean in a certain political direction" kind of school that might explain it....

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Quote from our school Admins (which i think most people here are more technically advanced than. I think he's also the daytime custodian :P)

"Around 11am this morning we will be doing a rare daytime release to address performance issues resulting from a DDOS attack.  Users are experiencing extreme slowness.  The release will take place within the hour.  Most users will be offline for 15 minutes or so.  We will put up static websites so all public sites will remain up, but users will not be able to login during this release."

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What school was it? If it's a "known to lean in a certain political direction" kind of school that might explain it....

Me or, 

@Pjtruslow  

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Me or, 

@Pjtruslow  

 

You.

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You.

Lemme just say its an average, cheap (all them budget cuts), public school :P

Nothing political really, besides the teachers strikes every now and then (of course, only on weekends :P)

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Lemme just say its an average, cheap (all them budget cuts), public school :P

Nothing political really, besides the teachers strikes every now and then (of course, only on weekends :P)

Oh I was thinking a college. Nevermind then. Probably someone pirating internet or something.

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School networks are usually poorly protected or use outdated protection. They think the biggest threats are outside of the network, they have no idea that the biggest threat is sitting right there in front of them. Seriously though, computer lab network is fairly open, file transfers, scripts and so on can be copied and executed. Made my friends PC go into infinite reboot loop by adding a script to reboot after 60 sec to start up. Let's just say the teachers freaked out and I disabled it without anyone noticing. But if I was an asshole I could have easily screwed around with a lot of PC's there and did some damage.

The most evil thing I've done is this (try it yourself). I print screened the background with icons, pasted it in paint and cropped the taskbar and set it as the background, then I removed all the icons from the desktop. Then just sat back and watched the students panic and the professors face was priceless... But was he mad when he got to the bottom of it, oh man! :D
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School networks are usually poorly protected or use outdated protection. They think the biggest threats are outside of the network, they have no idea that the biggest threat is sitting right there in front of them. Seriously though, computer lab network is fairly open, file transfers, scripts and so on can be copied and executed. Made my friends PC go into infinite reboot loop by adding a script to reboot after 60 sec to start up. Let's just say the teachers freaked out and I disabled it without anyone noticing. But if I was an asshole I could have easily screwed around with a lot of PC's there and did some damage.

The most evil thing I've done is this (try it yourself). I print screened the background with icons, pasted it in paint and cropped the taskbar and set it as the background, then I removed all the icons from the desktop. Then just sat back and watched the students panic and the professors face was priceless... But was he mad when he got to the bottom of it, oh man! :D

And rule nr. 1: NEVER GET CAUGHT! :D

We have stinkin macbook pros :P

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We have stinkin macbook pros :P

(lol)

We have iMacs in some labs, but XP everywhere else. They spent all their money on the macs and filled the rest with shitty dells.

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Some guys at my school took over the schools servers while at a LAN Party (yes we have lan parties in our school, fuck yeah!) and they started to DDoS random stuff using the schools 2 Gbit connection, let's say that the school wasn't all to pleased about that.

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