DDoS attacks continue

6-3-2010 14:12

New DDoS attacks aimed at the network at IEM4 World Championship has once again kicked in, on the final day of the tournament.

It is not the first time we report about DDoS attacks, as these started already on the very first day of the tournament. Now it’s Saturday and we are down to the final day of the tournament, which will bring us the Grand Final between the defending champions fnatic and Na`Vi.

Shortly before the Grand Final in Quake Like would kick off, new DDoS attacks started hit the network, once again meaning the internet was not usable, also causing our HLTV on the third-place decider match, to disconnect and connect multiple times.

Right now there is no action on the stage, as the Quake Live Grand Final cannot start due to these attacks. This could also very well mean, should the attacks continue, that the Grand Final in Counter-Strike will be delayed.

omg -_-

2010-03-06 14:13

It's getting REALLY boring now... :\

2010-03-06 14:13

lolix

2010-03-06 14:14

lonely nolifers got nothing better do to than ruin for other people? -.-

2010-03-06 14:14

Well stream is fine now.

2010-03-06 14:17

ESL ORGANISATION EPIC FAIL

2010-03-06 14:14

3 replies

This has nothing to do with ESL.

2010-03-06 14:16

ESL can't do anything. Dont you understand how a DDos works ? The Internet is not useable, you could higher thousend firewalls, that would only hide them away from the ESL system, but not from the Internet connection,

2010-03-06 14:19

cebit suffer attacks, not esl.

2010-03-06 14:22

So gay. I wanted to watch the Quake finals and they're constantly DDos'd Surely it's kinda unimpressive that a big tournament can't even sort out security

2010-03-06 14:15

1 reply

+1, quake final is so good

2010-03-06 14:25

suckers :/

2010-03-06 14:15

grand final counter strike like at 20:00 ? i think so ;)

2010-03-06 14:15

7 replies

in russia/moscow at 18.00-18.30 for sure with delay but not 2hours cuz they dont have much time

2010-03-06 14:26

6 replies

hes not from russia ^_____________^

2010-03-06 14:29

5 replies

i dont google if he is from ukraine slovenia or japan. as far as i know the timezone is right :D

2010-03-06 14:32

4 replies

Russia has like 11 different time-zones :p

2010-03-06 15:53

3 replies

i wrote moscow whats da problem? btw i thought they have only 10 really 11?

2010-03-06 16:32

2 replies

Ohh didn't see the Moscow part ;p Well i'm not sure about the number of time-zones and too lazy to google it :D

2010-03-06 16:32

1 reply

ok i google it. right 11 time zone's WoW :D

2010-03-06 16:39

Maybe they should sneak in at night and finish the tournament when no body is looking! ...or, install anti-ddos software/hardware.

2010-03-06 14:16

1 reply

Anti-DDoS-Hardware, how comes nobody thought of that! =)

2010-03-06 17:04

not a suprise

2010-03-06 14:16

fluNipaM

2010-03-06 14:17

so bad u would think they would expect that ddos attack by now but no come on get some protection on that server ..

2010-03-06 14:17

fucking ddosers(

2010-03-06 14:17

How does this happen every day...is it that easy to destroy a tournaments internet?

2010-03-06 14:17

cant they block em out?

2010-03-06 14:18

OMG! Typical -.-

2010-03-06 14:18

ccccc...admins have like shit insted of brains?

2010-03-06 14:18

1 reply

You're the only one with shit instead of brain. Maybe get some informations how DDos works, before writing such a FAIL.

2010-03-06 14:20

time to sleep!

2010-03-06 14:20

what means DDoS?

2010-03-06 14:20

4 replies

dad did one strike :D

2010-03-06 14:21

2 replies

lawl ;d

2010-03-06 14:32

1 reply

rly? :D wow i was wrong DAMN :D

2010-03-06 14:34

Distributed Denial of Service

2010-03-06 14:23

HIHO i like :-) revenge for the banned cheaters :D

2010-03-06 14:20

Oh my... isn't it possible to make sure that the games takes place on LAN only with just the HLTV connected to the i-net? :/

2010-03-06 14:21

3 replies

Dont you understand it. The Internet is nearly not useable, so no HLTV.

2010-03-06 14:22

1 reply

As i understood it, it made some of the players lag out and interupted a lot of the matches?

2010-03-06 14:37

nope

2010-03-06 14:23

at least it's paused

2010-03-06 14:21

1 reply

haha it's not

2010-03-06 14:34

suck

2010-03-06 14:22

distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. (c) :D

2010-03-06 14:24

#21 i know very well what DDOS is , and i m guessing you are one of the idiots who have shit insted of brain. nhf

2010-03-06 14:24

2 replies

Would you know very well what it is, you would know that it is nearly not possible to fix it.

2010-03-06 14:26

1 reply

got one but wont tell ya :D

2010-03-06 14:27

ok guys i'm back from work u can now stop the Ddos attacks and watch some epic battles.

2010-03-06 14:25

3 replies

yes sir!

2010-03-06 14:28

hAHHA

2010-03-06 14:31

2010-03-06 14:32

lol DDOSing nubs that are shit at games and life beacuse they're weak nerds with no hand-eye coordination. DDOSing is so basic.

2010-03-06 14:28

3 replies

they get cash for it..

2010-03-06 14:30

2 replies

yeah and you can earn with it really much

2010-03-06 14:33

1 reply

quite good money, they won't do it "4fun"

2010-03-06 14:37

: (

2010-03-06 14:29

minet came back to Denmark and started those DDoS today imo...revenge is a bitch anyway i'm sure he would have enjoyed it =]

2010-03-06 14:33

someone really hates ESL , as they don't allow HLTV in top matches :))

2010-03-06 14:37

1 reply

2010-03-06 14:39

ddosing is very anoying, but it can be prevented. obviously they had vulnerable software/applications running on a machine in a particular network. And the idiots who ddos them used security holes to compromise the hosts and the servers and install the DDoS tools

2010-03-06 14:41

just lol admins ^^^ fix problem can fix ^^^ just change some engige files on server and "hackers" sucks :)

2010-03-06 14:47

sad

2010-03-06 14:55

lolilol its virus ?

2010-03-06 15:06

As long as there is esl.tv I'm not angry on those hackers. It would be pleasure to see them in strike again on those tournaments with Stream tv :D I'm looking forward too see them on china attacking tournaments with this shity commentators in china language next time :D HF & GL

2010-03-06 15:15

DDoS attacks usually is a criminal activity. none do such hard work to prepare a this kind of attack just for fun or to ruin a competition. usually owners of a zombie pc army (infected pcs) are asking for an exchange from the victim for not doing the attack (like night clubs protection fee to goons). there are many stories even with ebay and other huge networks who are paying fees to e-goons for not being under a ddos attack. such type of attack cant prevented or traced if it is well organized. i'm telling that to you just to know that probably its not some nerdy scripting kinds or esl's falt. usually is more complicated

2010-03-06 16:01