thciixh4ckz wrote well it is simple ddos i used to do it all the time sending packages that the serves cant handle but yet with a ddos it comes from a ip address and with every ip address there will be a mac address yes its a stress and it wont be simple to the average person but to ppl with computer knowledge it wouldnt be hard to do it but with the experiences i have ddosing my school network and costing them security issues and money and almost facing federal offences its not hard to track the sources of these large packages

sorry but i just had to say this, BUT are you seriously comparing your schools network to Microsoft's LMAOO

Rhesus wrote

thciixh4ckz wrote well it is simple ddos i used to do it all the time sending packages that the serves cant handle but yet with a ddos it comes from a ip address and with every ip address there will be a mac address yes its a stress and it wont be simple to the average person but to ppl with computer knowledge it wouldnt be hard to do it but with the experiences i have ddosing my school network and costing them security issues and money and almost facing federal offences its not hard to track the sources of these large packages

sorry but i just had to say this, BUT are you seriously comparing your schools network to Microsoft's LMAOO

Lmao ikr. Anyways, this is getting annoying. Microsoft needs to do something

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Wow, this post gave me ebola aids.

You kid, have no idea what you are on about. A 'simple' ddos attack. lets see you do that to microsoft unidentified. The only reason they know who did it is because lizardsquad tweeted to them saying they did it.

Unless you know what you're talking about, don't make a **** post about it.

DDoS has nothing to do with infiltrating a secure system, which would be required to get ANY of your details. Even if such a thing did happen, the sensitive stuff would be encrypted and, unless you're an idiot who uses simple passwords, will have to be bruteforced to reveal the information.

In the case of credit cards, where there are 2.092279x10^13 (2,092,279,000,000) possible different combinations (although of course credit cards numbers have to follow a certain pattern) the chances of this data being cracked is slim to none. Considering one of the most basic hash algorithms (MD5) can be computed at around 1,500,000,000 per second (that means it will check 1,500,000,000 different combinations every second), it would take 25 minutes to crack a single number. In a database of millions. That's assuming that MS use the most basic and least secure hash algorithm, which they won't. They'll use a much more complex one which would probably be computed at a much much much lower rate (we're talking like 500,000-1,000,000/s here).

Honestly, don't worry about it. Your data is safe. The most these guys are able to do is hit it offline for a while.

vSmithy wrote Unless you know what you're talking about, don't make a **** post about it.

DDoS has nothing to do with infiltrating a secure system, which would be required to get ANY of your details. Even if such a thing did happen, the sensitive stuff would be encrypted and, unless you're an idiot who uses simple passwords, will have to be bruteforced to reveal the information.

In the case of credit cards, where there are 2.092279x10^13 (2,092,279,000,000) possible different combinations (although of course credit cards numbers have to follow a certain pattern) the chances of this data being cracked is slim to none. Considering one of the most basic hash algorithms (MD5) can be computed at around 1,500,000,000 per second (that means it will check 1,500,000,000 different combinations every second), it would take 25 minutes to crack a single number. In a database of millions. That's assuming that MS use the most basic and least secure hash algorithm, which they won't. They'll use a much more complex one which would probably be computed at a much much much lower rate (we're talking like 500,000-1,000,000/s here).

Honestly, don't worry about it. Your data is safe. The most these guys are able to do is hit it offline for a while.

Well no. I'm pretty sure they deleted 2 million steam members. [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

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Well no. I'm pretty sure they deleted 2 million steam members. [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Well no. Steam probably had 2 million people online and they booted them off.

I don't understand how people can't grasp the fact that DDoSing is NOT hacking? It has nothing to do with gaining access to computer systems. It overwhelms the servers with useless data so they can't process anything else.

Oh, and i'll reiterate; unless you know what you're speaking about, don't f*cking speak.

thciixh4ckz wrote well it is simple ddos i used to do it all the time sending packages that the serves cant handle but yet with a ddos it comes from a ip address and with every ip address there will be a mac address yes its a stress and it wont be simple to the average person but to ppl with computer knowledge it wouldnt be hard to do it but with the experiences i have ddosing my school network and costing them security issues and money and almost facing federal offences its not hard to track the sources of these large packages

wow you really don't know what your talking about do you SMH