Comments on: ProBlogger Suffers DoS Attack

By: ITechTips

ITechTips — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:25:26 +0000

New Denial-of-service Threat using DNS Servers

No company should feel they are 100% secured against DDOS Attacks and it should have a proactive process in order to ensure their systems are not compromised. Even bloggers get this attention nowadays, as in the case of Darren Rowse…

By: Digital scratch pad

Digital scratch pad — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:45:51 +0000

[...] Australian Darren Rowse confirmed that an outage Monday on his ProBlogger weblog was caused by a DDoS, but provided no details about the attackers or their motives. Rowse gained international attention last year when he revealed that he would make more than $100,000 as a solo blogger in 2005, primarily through earnings from Google AdSense advertising and commissions from affiliate referral programs. [...]

By: Problogger dead » Work Boxers

Problogger dead » Work Boxers — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:55:35 +0000

[...] The ProBlogger site isn’t loading for me (and two other networks) so I can only guess that the DOS attacks have started again. [...]

By: Digger

Digger — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:54:00 +0000

Who the hell would DoS problogger? Man talk about having too much time on your hands.

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By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:15:27 +0000

So that’s why I couldn’t view the site. I feared the worst…that you actually shut the site down.

By: Reflexiones e irreflexiones

Reflexiones e irreflexiones — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:45:58 +0000

¿Ataques a bitacoreros famosos?

Eso cuentan en DDoS Attacks Target Prominent Blogs que vi en Weblogs víctimes d’atacs DDoS. El atacado sería Darren Rowse, que escribe en problogger y que parece que tiene unas cuentas bien saneadas. Él lo cuenta en ProBlogger Suffers DoS Attack u…

By: anymounous

anymounous — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:37:33 +0000

DDoS Attacks Target Prominent Blogs http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/28/ddos_attacks_target_prominent_blogs.html

By: The Information Bank

The Information Bank — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:21:37 +0000

huh! i was wondering why i couldn’t read my rss feed of problogger during my lunch break yesterday! darren, that’s an interesting way to to see the DoS attack (getting noticed).

By: pcunix

pcunix — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:50:19 +0000

Hmmm.

Two possibilities: a competitor, or a preparation for extortion.

Neither one seems likely. Possibly it was accidental? If it was extortion, you’ll be hearing from the s.o.b’s son enough.

By: Rian

Rian — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:19:34 +0000

mod_dos is an Apache module that thwarts Denial of Service attacks. Hope the sysadmin takes those precautions.

mod_dos is all well and good but if you’re experiencing a 40-100Mbit DDOS attack, you’re going to need to look at more drastic measures than Apache modules. :p

By: Peter Crawford

Peter Crawford — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:22:10 +0000

I’ve only been reading a couple of weeks,but its a great resource. Darren ,lets hope its the last problem for a long while.Keep up the brilliant work.Cheers!

By: Blog Network Watch

Blog Network Watch — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:03:06 +0000

Denial of Service Attack against Problogger

b5media’s Darren Rowse has been hit with a DoS attack against Problogger….

By: laughingmachine

laughingmachine — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:02:38 +0000

I Got Noticed Yesterday But I Thinked That’s My Pc/Internet Problem
I Hopes DoS Attack Didnt Done Any Damage

By: Me

Me — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:34:59 +0000

Recently a lot of websites suffer DoS attack, including mine.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:23:16 +0000

Mine is being very supportive – looks like we’re getting there with it.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:11:19 +0000

You know you’ve made it when you’ve suffered a DOS :-)
Hope your host is being supportive, they usually arent.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:32:47 +0000

Oh, whew. I thought the site shut down or something. I visit it every day and I was surprised that it wasn’t working.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:06:42 +0000

mod_dos is an Apache module that thwarts Denial of Service attacks. Hope the sysadmin takes those precautions.

By: A1Arcade.com

A1Arcade.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:42:23 +0000

I noticed the down time as well, Darren. Thought you were just experiencing some hosting problems. Good to know you’ve identified the problem and (it looks like) resolved it.

As Brent said, you know you’re famous when you get this kind of attention. ;)

Take care