Post by imbecilicwallaby on Jul 27, 2011 3:55:04 GMT -5
Neverminding the old forum it was just something for easy linking!This page is for the recent DDoS/LJ downtime and any information I can find regarding since LJ has yet to inform its non-Russian users of difficulties. EDIT: Livejournal has updated it's status page with basic information on the attack.
I've been looking into the issues that have been brought out by LJ for the last few days and some recent information was brought out on Russian news sites:
Originally Livejournal claimed their Data Server Centres has crashed. --Russian news sources, I don't have a link to this.
They've been switching authorized domains continuously-- changelogs.livejournal.com although this may have nothing to do with that!
New News Reports here
and HERE
Have changed these claims. As they're in Russian here's the basic run down:
-Friday night three hackers attacked Livejournal and crashed the data bases.
-Afterwards a DDoS attack has come into play continuously. It's still ongoing.
-The hackers have sent 6-8 gigs of traffic per second (in the past 2gigs was its peak).
-The Administrators have stressed it's "not attacking specific bloggers but ip addresses". They're attacking the site as a whole this time. (however, the five top bloggers were listed and said to be the aim after one of them gave a speech).
-Livejournal indexing by search engines are temporarily closed.
-All LJ users with Paid Accounts WILL get refunds from the lost time!
More detailed story (less accuracy as I try to delve into Russian): Livejournal first started messing up at the beginning of the week for three well known bloggers in Russia. One of the bloggers, apparently having shown sympathy to the Norwegian terrorist (?? someone did!), told LJ they thought they were under a DDoS attack and were promptly ignored. Several hours later the data servers were crashed. From how things are reading, this was by the hackers.
-What caused the failure was a DDoS attack caused by the hackers.
Taking advantage of Livejournal's downtime the hackers started up a DDoS attack. This DDoS attack is sending trafficing in Livejournals direction from 6 to 8 gigs, the highest known before was 2 gigs. This is the ceiling amount the Qwest and Verizon areas can get (livejournal locations, if I'm correct). Responsibility for the technical difficulties were attributed to the U.S. telecom Qwest and Verizon.
The administration service stresses that "the addressees of DDoS are not popular bloggers, the attackers are attacking IP service, thus, an attack aimed at LiveJournal as a whole."
Apparently these went on against the original hits, the five aforementioned bloggers, for nineteen consecutive hours. Hackers are still attacking LJ and the DDoS attack has been designed to make it difficult for LJ staff to look into the hardware at what's wrong.
** I'll try to update more as I get information.
**From Livejournal Russia here
A basic announcement.
"Does not work even reserve a console that would allow us to somehow understand what's happening with the network hardware (in this case the user data is still protected architecture because of LiveJournal), so the only source of information for us and other clients sites were providers" - said Ilya Dronov, Director of Product Development LiveJournal.
--! Although LJ did buy new hardware in March/April the hackers behind this attack are taking a new approach making it difficult for them to see inside.
I've been looking into the issues that have been brought out by LJ for the last few days and some recent information was brought out on Russian news sites:
Originally Livejournal claimed their Data Server Centres has crashed. --Russian news sources, I don't have a link to this.
They've been switching authorized domains continuously-- changelogs.livejournal.com although this may have nothing to do with that!
New News Reports here
and HERE
Have changed these claims. As they're in Russian here's the basic run down:
-Friday night three hackers attacked Livejournal and crashed the data bases.
-Afterwards a DDoS attack has come into play continuously. It's still ongoing.
-The hackers have sent 6-8 gigs of traffic per second (in the past 2gigs was its peak).
-The Administrators have stressed it's "not attacking specific bloggers but ip addresses". They're attacking the site as a whole this time. (however, the five top bloggers were listed and said to be the aim after one of them gave a speech).
-Livejournal indexing by search engines are temporarily closed.
-All LJ users with Paid Accounts WILL get refunds from the lost time!
More detailed story (less accuracy as I try to delve into Russian): Livejournal first started messing up at the beginning of the week for three well known bloggers in Russia. One of the bloggers, apparently having shown sympathy to the Norwegian terrorist (?? someone did!), told LJ they thought they were under a DDoS attack and were promptly ignored. Several hours later the data servers were crashed. From how things are reading, this was by the hackers.
-What caused the failure was a DDoS attack caused by the hackers.
Taking advantage of Livejournal's downtime the hackers started up a DDoS attack. This DDoS attack is sending trafficing in Livejournals direction from 6 to 8 gigs, the highest known before was 2 gigs. This is the ceiling amount the Qwest and Verizon areas can get (livejournal locations, if I'm correct). Responsibility for the technical difficulties were attributed to the U.S. telecom Qwest and Verizon.
The administration service stresses that "the addressees of DDoS are not popular bloggers, the attackers are attacking IP service, thus, an attack aimed at LiveJournal as a whole."
Apparently these went on against the original hits, the five aforementioned bloggers, for nineteen consecutive hours. Hackers are still attacking LJ and the DDoS attack has been designed to make it difficult for LJ staff to look into the hardware at what's wrong.
** I'll try to update more as I get information.
**From Livejournal Russia here
A basic announcement.
"Does not work even reserve a console that would allow us to somehow understand what's happening with the network hardware (in this case the user data is still protected architecture because of LiveJournal), so the only source of information for us and other clients sites were providers" - said Ilya Dronov, Director of Product Development LiveJournal.
--! Although LJ did buy new hardware in March/April the hackers behind this attack are taking a new approach making it difficult for them to see inside.