Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Enjoyed your explanation for the attack.... I was wrong about world domination.. the attackers wanted to save your immortal soul..... or something like that...... Maybe this is not entirely interesting for the group, but I have always wondered.... what does a cyber attack actually look like? Just a whole bunch of? email traffic?? Order of magnitude, if that can be mentioned.....? ( I have deleted all the techie stuff, just because repeating it is another copy out there in cyber space..... Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com On 8/13/2022 3:23 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > Most cyberattacks are not targeted at specific organizations. Some > are, of course, but for the most part, cyberattackers just pick IP > addresses at random and start blasting at them to see what happens. >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 8:20 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> >> wrote: >> >>> The LUG server experienced a massive cyberattack from somewhere in West >>> Asia (perhaps Belarus or Moldova) and was offline for several hours. I >>> was not able to deflect the attack, but the attackers eventually got >>> bored and went to attack someone else. It is now working again.