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What happened last time? :ninja:

https://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&a...gain)%252005-25

That was quite an event. Little kids should not have computers...

https://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&a...gain)%252005-25

That was quite an event. Little kids should not have computers...

Link is dead for me?

Anyway

Right now Neowin is swamped, slow, and sometimes gives "Server too busy" messages. This started a couple of hours ago and I expect this to continue for as long as the datacenter (rackshack) allows it and eventually pulls the plug (routing to our server). This is caused by yet another DoS (Denial of Service) attack where a person is sending 1000's of packets to common ports on our server (in this case apache) The person doing this goes by the name of kidd0 who is 12 years old (yea I know) and can be found at the website www.<< spam >>. He was banned for breaking the rules some time ago and has since recruited another member from Neowin who relayed threats and admissions of previous DoS attacks for kidd0 until he was also banned from here. Additionally the site has also started to use newslogos from Neowin without permission or credit yet surprisingly they do source some of our news stories. I don't usually post information relating to these types of attacks but since they are happening too frequently lately with no end in sight and resulting in downtime of up to 48 hours for some visitors I felt it was only fair to tell everyone why they can't browse the site properly. kidd0 has made no secret and has admitted at a number of sites for being responsible for downtimes at Neowin and other sites. Its a shame that this kid has way too much power (controls some sort of zombie trojan on 1000's of infected PC's) and nothing better to do than destroy the same type of community that he appears to duplicate at his own site. I feel pretty powerless and fed up at the same time. So if I don't answer your emails or PM's demanding to know why you can't get to the site or why your IP was "blocked" its because the routing will be disabled again which means there will be downtime before people can access the site again. IPS (Invision Power Services, our host) are aware of this, so please don't bother to bombard them with emails, they are also doing what they can to rectify the situation. On behalf of the Neowin Team, Thanks for your continued patience and support, I hope this is sorted soon.

Source: https://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op...le&sid=9986

Sorry it's not formatted better...

Link is dead for me?

Anyway

Source: https://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op...le&sid=9986

Sorry it's not formatted better...

That is where my link goes......

That is where my link goes......

Your link just takes me to https://www.neowin.net as if the article isn't found? :huh:

You posted this - https://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&a...gain)%252005-25

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