24th April 2011, 7:07 PM
I don't know what a 4chan is.
Anyway, most of those bot nets are only in the thousands. Anything as concerted as millions is probably the work of a concerted professional (read: not basement hacker) effort. One thing's for sure, no DDOS attack is ever going to take down a distributed computing giant in the cloud like Google. Sony's network isn't that big, but the recent DDOS attacks haven't taken it down for more than a couple hours at a time. This really doesn't seem like that, and I don't think any government agency or criminal organization (the only ones that'd have MILLIONS of sleeper computers at their disposal) is going to have it in for Sony.
Sony's official announcement is they are taking down their systems for upgrades against the recent attacks. A little late to say that though...
ABF, you're a little confused. Every single thing you ever view, every single page, every single "stream", is a download. "Viewing a page" can trigger a download through an exploit, I think that's what you mean, and while it's possible, today's browsers are more secure than ever against that sort of thing. The majority of virus infections are the result of outdated software, such as people running Windows 98 and using Internet Explorer 5. In other words, I bet a lot of these bot nets are to be found in retirement homes.
Anyway, most of those bot nets are only in the thousands. Anything as concerted as millions is probably the work of a concerted professional (read: not basement hacker) effort. One thing's for sure, no DDOS attack is ever going to take down a distributed computing giant in the cloud like Google. Sony's network isn't that big, but the recent DDOS attacks haven't taken it down for more than a couple hours at a time. This really doesn't seem like that, and I don't think any government agency or criminal organization (the only ones that'd have MILLIONS of sleeper computers at their disposal) is going to have it in for Sony.
Sony's official announcement is they are taking down their systems for upgrades against the recent attacks. A little late to say that though...
ABF, you're a little confused. Every single thing you ever view, every single page, every single "stream", is a download. "Viewing a page" can trigger a download through an exploit, I think that's what you mean, and while it's possible, today's browsers are more secure than ever against that sort of thing. The majority of virus infections are the result of outdated software, such as people running Windows 98 and using Internet Explorer 5. In other words, I bet a lot of these bot nets are to be found in retirement homes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)