Demonoid hit by DDoS attack
Summary: Demonoid, one of the biggest torrent sites around, has been taken down by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The website has been hit many times before, and this outage is another one that will take quite a while to resolve.
Update on August 1 - One week later, Demonoid still down after massive DDOS attack and Is Demonoid gone for good?
Demonoid has been hit by a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, bringing down the famous BitTorrent tracker to its knees. The torrent website has been inaccessible to its millions of users for more than a day and is expected to remain offline for quite some time.
As you can see in the screenshot above, Demonoid is currently serving up the following error message:
Server too busy
The action you requested could not be completed because the server is too busy.
Please try again in a few minutes
Do not click reload - Use the following links
Clicking reload will get you this page againClick here to return to the homepage or Click here to go back
I said this attack was "massive" because it has resulted in a series of problems that may take a while to address. Over the years, Demonoid has been down many times, sometimes disappearing for months.
"It started as a DDoS but then it caused a series of problems," Demonoid's admin told TorrentFreak. "These problems need to be fixed before the site can go back up, and it’s a complicated fix this time. There might have been an attack from another angle, an exploit of sorts, but it’s hard to tell right now without a full check of everything. Our human resources became limited in the last few months. All tech issues are handled just by me now and there is no one else to take the job. I’ll fix the site as soon as possible, but it might be a while this time."
It's currently unclear whether or not the attack against Demonoid was anti-piracy related. Either way, Demonoid's users have to find an alternative for their downloading needs while they wait for its return.
Update on August 1 - One week later, Demonoid still down after massive DDOS attack and Is Demonoid gone for good?
See also:
- Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days
- Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack
- The Pirate Bay hit with massive DDoS attack
- The Pirate Bay criticizes Anonymous for DDoS attack
- The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS
- Anonymous hacks UK government sites over 'draconian surveillance'
- Anonymous hacks Vatican again
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Obviously, it's the government or corporations.
Haha
Yup
well...
Until we actually hear more it's just speculation.
As to Annon... isn't the whole point of Annon that they have no leadership? Just mentioning that because ti could very well be someone calling themselves that..
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I agree as well.
Alternatives?
http://www.mervderv.com/news/sabnzbd-sickbeard-couchpotato-headphones
No
NZB's are SAFER
To put it super simply, when you download a file from a torrent site, you are making a connection with every person who is also downloading that file. Including gub-mint groups and anti-piracy groups who now have your IP address.
When you download a NZB, it is a private transaction between you and your ISP - no other person or PC is connecting to your PC. The only place that has your IP is your service provider. Your service provider will demand warrants of anyone wanting that information.
Plus, newsgroups aren't actually websites, lol, there are a few places that help newbs find nzb's faster, and have filters to get rid of "bad" nzb's, but we are talking the old-skool Newsgroups servers here. You don't need a site to find what you are looking for.
Of course, NZB's do take a bit of compuliteracy, and many folks are lacking that...
Shhhhh....
You do NOT talk about Usenet! lol
All I know of now is "pay newsgroup services" like Giganews..
Anyone here have any better recommendations for newsgroups? I see they're still release new versions of my favorite reader; Forte Agent!
Ask your ISP
And then I do use Nzbs. org to help sort the good files from the bad.
Actually no
Actually yes
Nope - try again.
For example, these are the peers I am currently connected to on a test torrent to show you (I removed the port) that you can see anyone's IP that is downloading or uploading to your PC:
142.68.77.102:
86.28.181.250:
70.31.31.9:
86.169.195.69:
85.60.228.8:
87.104.113.21:
190.156.105.173:
NZB's don't have this fatal flaw...
pure genius
/facepalm
The port is irrelevant genius, the IP address is the personally identifying info.
flagged for posting IP addresses (if the admin cares enough /shrug)
Over Dramatic Much?
Removing the port amounts to removing the apartment number - you might have the street address, but it might take you a while to find the right "door". And if you are using torrents, you have protected your system, right?
Besides - anyone who has the know-how to do something "evil" with these IP's, doesn't need the 7 I listed - they can just as easily get thousands of their own by simply queuing up the Telesync of "Dark Knight" and have as many IP addresses as they could use.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
Hallelujah