A UK teenager who admitted launching a denial of service attack on online multiplayer game Face Of Mankind has been reprimanded by police. The 16-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, launched the relatively unsophisticated SYN Flood attack throughout May 2007. As a result, Face Of Mankind's portal was regularly …
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Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 13:39 GMT
What a twit.
The worst bit is that he's doing computer studies. If this is the quality of the people taking the courses then no wonder the recruitment bods are always going on about a "skills crisis".
Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 13:42 GMT
He didn't even use a basic IP anonymiser?
"Pretty stupid" indeed!
Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 14:49 GMT
...managed to generate enough SYNs data to take down the server? Why didn't they just block it?
Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 15:54 GMT
Most webmasters could have busted him quite easily seeing how "invisible mode" was his only attempt at anonymity.
Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 16:52 GMT
Have you worked in IT recently? There's morons all over the shop!
Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 17:02 GMT
Why in the blue shit didn't he forward all traffic from that IP down the toilet?
Guy isn't fit for changing toners...
Posted Monday 28th January 2008 00:15 GMT
The guy used one IP and you still had to hire an outside company when you could have simply blocked or forwarded the fake packets somewhere else... useless company... no wonder why the game ceases to exist now...
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