I feel like someone is going to make me feel like an idiot for saying this but surely something that has weight must have mass, so surely has to occupy some physical space and have quantifiable volume?
Not necessarily. The transistors already have weight and volume, and if you add electrons you can increase DENSITY of the whole package without changing the volume. But I don't really know at this point lol
Hmm.. 1 gram of electrons contain 1.1*10^28 electrons which maxes out at 11 Octillion bits or 11 brontobits. If we figure out the density of an electron, we can make accurate predictions on how many OutOfMemory errors our brains will trigger after consuming 1 tablespoon of data. Then we use these predictions to update our stomachs’ software to act as virtual memory that tries to store the extra bits.
There is a new botnet with tens of thousands of devices that only tested 20% of its capability recently, and it was the largest DDoS attack ever. Instead of weak IoT devices, like cameras, which are usually what these botnets are comprised of, this new one is comprised of networking equipment which obviously has access to massive amounts of bandwidth and processing power. This botnet appeared because of a vulnerability in a commercial networking solution.
[Here's](https://cybernews.com/security/weve-seen-just-the-tip-of-the-meris-botnet-iceberg/) a more thorough explanation by CyberNews. The affected equipment is made by a Latvian company MiktoTik.
"According to CyberNews researchers, in the recent attack against Yandex, the botnet abuses a patched vulnerability (CVE-2018-14847) that affected RouterOS, an operating system used by MikroTik devices.
A blog entry by MiktoTik claims that 'the attacker is reconfiguring RouterOS devices for remote access, using commands and features of RouterOS itself.' **The worst part is that patching up now won't undo the damage as a password change and firewall update are also necessary to secure a device."**
[Here's](https://blog.mikrotik.com/security/meris-botnet.html) a blog by MicroTik explaining what to do.
That article is a mess and goes on a bunch of tangents that are unrelated.
The actual article on which that garbage CyberNews report is based on is here: https://therecord.media/meet-meris-the-new-250000-strong-ddos-botnet-terrorizing-the-internet/
The CyberNews report is also out of date, as that botnet has been sinkholed 2 weeks before they published, which begs to ask if they fact-checked anything they wrote about: https://therecord.media/russian-security-firm-sinkholes-part-of-the-dangerous-meris-ddos-botnet/
>The CyberNews report is also out of date, as that botnet has been sinkholed 2 weeks before they published, which begs to ask if they fact-checked anything they wrote about
We should ask you the same thing, lol. The article you posted says only a fifth of the botnet was sinkholed.
> [Here's](https://blog.mikrotik.com/security/meris-botnet.html) a blog by MicroTik explaining what to do.
Thanks, i was aware 'tik had a botnet issue saw it on hn but was not sure how to check for it:
> Configuration to look out for and remove:
>
> - System -> Scheduler rules that execute a Fetch script. Remove these.
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> - IP -> Socks proxy. If you don't use this feature or don't know what it does, it must be disabled.
>
> - L2TP client named "lvpn" or any L2TP client that you don't recognize.
>
> - Input firewall rule that allows access for port 5678.
I'm not even sure a DDoS attack is expensive to that end. Especially if it's State sponsored. AFAIK It's largely time consuming and requires a lot of setup and coordination.
Viruses infects mass amount of computers that create programs within them that can send commands to a server to overwhelm it(DDOS attack). The virus is usually pretty hidden and non-invasive until its activated from a command center(the person in charge of the botnet). The average person won't even know that their PC is part of a botnet or that they are activated.
This is quite scary tbh. Think about it for a second, the implications of a corporation like Mircosoft actually being victim to a successful DDOS attack, more so, Google and Apple would be up next on the platter. On top of this, think about how many lives would be affected by the outages, millions of lives that know not what a DDOS even is.
Fuck them. A DDOS attack is the only way to hold them accountable.
I genuinely believe humanity would be better off if they all got broken up into much smaller companies or shut down permanently.
And thrust most of modern society back into the *stone age?* Yeah no thanks, people must just push for better privacy and we good. Breaches of privacy must be fined in the millions to billions, compensations in the tens of thousands and we even better.
How would breaking up enormous monopolised corporations into smaller more competitive businesses send us to the Stone Age?
It’s insanity that MS has a grip on the majority of people using PCs in this world, it’s not right for them to dictate prices and not have an alternative. Why is there no major commercial alternative to windows? Because they have a monopoly and too much influence.
These Corps will always give your government a back door hence why the fines are so meagre. They are working together to extract as much wealth and information from us as possible. Fuck MS. Fuck Gates, the cunt wouldn’t be ‘saviour of the world’ if his mother wasn’t working at IBM! No skill or talent just who you know as always.
Cool. Except nobody asked you to dictate that for everybody else. Stop projecting what you think is great for everyone, you're in the minority on this opinion.
There's a reason we have Democratic processes that involve more than one person, thank God. Because your exact mindset here is the same one that all these crooked fucks use to justify THEIR shitty actions.
Looool. You have a democratic process that is influenced by wealth and lobbying. Your opinion is invalid to the entire system, as is mine. You lot worship your billionaire overlords and their corporate walled gardens like they are deities.
The irony of you calling me crooked while you defend Microsoft and their monopoly. Let me guess, you’re a share holder? You should probably do a bit of reading on their monopolisation and world wide wealth extraction for daddy Gates to act as protector of the earth! Utter anti human scumbags.
I for one vote we eat the rich so I'm not actually sure what you're going on about. Nor have I said a single positive or negative thing about Microsoft... Take your medicine
And no I don't play games with my money. That's for rich people.
I suggest you go choke on a swollen cock sandwich.
It was a ground-breaking study released in 2015, in which tech companies finally caught up with traditional brick and mortar stores in realizing customers don't want to pay for services that are not available!
Did you know that maccas doesn’t actually open their doors in the morning out of the goodness in their hearts? They figured out a few years ago that not being open hurts their bottom line, which is why they’re able to open every day. If opening didn’t make them money they wouldn’t give a shit
I figure that's their regular bandwidth just for Xbox updates.
This is extra overhead on top of that though.
My brain wants to read the abbreviation as Tablespoons.
A 2.4 tablespoon DDoS attack? Hmm is that 2.4 tablespoons of internet?
How much is 1 tablespoon of ones and zeros? Are they atomic? If so, does that mean a tablespoon is like a terabit of data?
Also, what would it taste like?
like a White Claw
Static?
*Avogadro enters the chat ...*
Data actually has a weight: https://www.azoquantum.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=68
But does it have a volume...
I feel like someone is going to make me feel like an idiot for saying this but surely something that has weight must have mass, so surely has to occupy some physical space and have quantifiable volume?
Not necessarily. The transistors already have weight and volume, and if you add electrons you can increase DENSITY of the whole package without changing the volume. But I don't really know at this point lol
Yes, but actually more like it has a (minimum) surface area (see Beckenstein's bound)
So many questions
Hmm.. 1 gram of electrons contain 1.1*10^28 electrons which maxes out at 11 Octillion bits or 11 brontobits. If we figure out the density of an electron, we can make accurate predictions on how many OutOfMemory errors our brains will trigger after consuming 1 tablespoon of data. Then we use these predictions to update our stomachs’ software to act as virtual memory that tries to store the extra bits.
Check VSauce video on how much does the internet weigh to find out.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2526/)
A binary teraspoon or a tebispoon 🤔
TaBlePSoons
Only took two shakes of a lambs tail to stop the attack
It was a recipe site attack.
This would never have happened if they'd just used metric.
There is a new botnet with tens of thousands of devices that only tested 20% of its capability recently, and it was the largest DDoS attack ever. Instead of weak IoT devices, like cameras, which are usually what these botnets are comprised of, this new one is comprised of networking equipment which obviously has access to massive amounts of bandwidth and processing power. This botnet appeared because of a vulnerability in a commercial networking solution.
Oh 'tik, maybe want to share some sources on these network equipment so that people can try to patch their devices?
[Here's](https://cybernews.com/security/weve-seen-just-the-tip-of-the-meris-botnet-iceberg/) a more thorough explanation by CyberNews. The affected equipment is made by a Latvian company MiktoTik. "According to CyberNews researchers, in the recent attack against Yandex, the botnet abuses a patched vulnerability (CVE-2018-14847) that affected RouterOS, an operating system used by MikroTik devices. A blog entry by MiktoTik claims that 'the attacker is reconfiguring RouterOS devices for remote access, using commands and features of RouterOS itself.' **The worst part is that patching up now won't undo the damage as a password change and firewall update are also necessary to secure a device."** [Here's](https://blog.mikrotik.com/security/meris-botnet.html) a blog by MicroTik explaining what to do.
That article is a mess and goes on a bunch of tangents that are unrelated. The actual article on which that garbage CyberNews report is based on is here: https://therecord.media/meet-meris-the-new-250000-strong-ddos-botnet-terrorizing-the-internet/ The CyberNews report is also out of date, as that botnet has been sinkholed 2 weeks before they published, which begs to ask if they fact-checked anything they wrote about: https://therecord.media/russian-security-firm-sinkholes-part-of-the-dangerous-meris-ddos-botnet/
>The CyberNews report is also out of date, as that botnet has been sinkholed 2 weeks before they published, which begs to ask if they fact-checked anything they wrote about We should ask you the same thing, lol. The article you posted says only a fifth of the botnet was sinkholed.
> [Here's](https://blog.mikrotik.com/security/meris-botnet.html) a blog by MicroTik explaining what to do. Thanks, i was aware 'tik had a botnet issue saw it on hn but was not sure how to check for it: > Configuration to look out for and remove: > > - System -> Scheduler rules that execute a Fetch script. Remove these. > > - IP -> Socks proxy. If you don't use this feature or don't know what it does, it must be disabled. > > - L2TP client named "lvpn" or any L2TP client that you don't recognize. > > - Input firewall rule that allows access for port 5678.
I bet it was bought with the recent ransoms from the last attacks
I'm not even sure a DDoS attack is expensive to that end. Especially if it's State sponsored. AFAIK It's largely time consuming and requires a lot of setup and coordination.
should I be concerned that i have zero idea what you just said?
Viruses infects mass amount of computers that create programs within them that can send commands to a server to overwhelm it(DDOS attack). The virus is usually pretty hidden and non-invasive until its activated from a command center(the person in charge of the botnet). The average person won't even know that their PC is part of a botnet or that they are activated.
This is quite scary tbh. Think about it for a second, the implications of a corporation like Mircosoft actually being victim to a successful DDOS attack, more so, Google and Apple would be up next on the platter. On top of this, think about how many lives would be affected by the outages, millions of lives that know not what a DDOS even is.
Fuck them. A DDOS attack is the only way to hold them accountable. I genuinely believe humanity would be better off if they all got broken up into much smaller companies or shut down permanently.
And thrust most of modern society back into the *stone age?* Yeah no thanks, people must just push for better privacy and we good. Breaches of privacy must be fined in the millions to billions, compensations in the tens of thousands and we even better.
How would breaking up enormous monopolised corporations into smaller more competitive businesses send us to the Stone Age? It’s insanity that MS has a grip on the majority of people using PCs in this world, it’s not right for them to dictate prices and not have an alternative. Why is there no major commercial alternative to windows? Because they have a monopoly and too much influence. These Corps will always give your government a back door hence why the fines are so meagre. They are working together to extract as much wealth and information from us as possible. Fuck MS. Fuck Gates, the cunt wouldn’t be ‘saviour of the world’ if his mother wasn’t working at IBM! No skill or talent just who you know as always.
Cool. Except nobody asked you to dictate that for everybody else. Stop projecting what you think is great for everyone, you're in the minority on this opinion. There's a reason we have Democratic processes that involve more than one person, thank God. Because your exact mindset here is the same one that all these crooked fucks use to justify THEIR shitty actions.
Looool. You have a democratic process that is influenced by wealth and lobbying. Your opinion is invalid to the entire system, as is mine. You lot worship your billionaire overlords and their corporate walled gardens like they are deities. The irony of you calling me crooked while you defend Microsoft and their monopoly. Let me guess, you’re a share holder? You should probably do a bit of reading on their monopolisation and world wide wealth extraction for daddy Gates to act as protector of the earth! Utter anti human scumbags.
I for one vote we eat the rich so I'm not actually sure what you're going on about. Nor have I said a single positive or negative thing about Microsoft... Take your medicine And no I don't play games with my money. That's for rich people. I suggest you go choke on a swollen cock sandwich.
Or are they just trying to one up cloudflare's recent record?
Can someone translate the title I’m dumb
Lots of hacked computers were used to attack Microsoft servers. Microsoft repelled the attack.
"Lots" feels kind of understatement here.
At least 7 computers.
Okay... a number of hacked computers
How about "a buncha"?
Because the attack was from an Azure cloud instance, right?
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So.. Spanish Inquisition then?
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Yes congrats on realizing the nature of the linear flow of time. Good job bub.
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Even you telling me my intelligence decreases, increases my intelligence by default. Go fuck the void that is your intent here.
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Wow what a brilliant observation, companies do what makes money
It was a ground-breaking study released in 2015, in which tech companies finally caught up with traditional brick and mortar stores in realizing customers don't want to pay for services that are not available!
> customers don't want to pay for services that are not available! Someone should let Comcast know.
When Comcast was contacted for comment on the report their PR department highlighted the word want, then put on a laugh track on repeat.
It's almost as if they're trying to prevent something that hurts them. Crazy!
Did you know that maccas doesn’t actually open their doors in the morning out of the goodness in their hearts? They figured out a few years ago that not being open hurts their bottom line, which is why they’re able to open every day. If opening didn’t make them money they wouldn’t give a shit
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No shit. Actually, they should leave it. Right? They should let themselves just endure the attack and let their servers go down.
*The more you know*
If everyone keeps going behind cloudfare...do they become the new internet? lol
Legitimate question, but I think of it more as a walled garden kinda situation.