Sonysat Denial of service attack

hiway · February 8th, 2010, 09:37 PM

c/p
Beginning at 6:16 PM Eastern Time Today evening, we began experiencing a “distributed denial of service” attack aimed at our “EKE” server.

The attack used more than 2 Gbps of network bandwidth from several thousand different IP addresses. This is an extremely high amount of traffic, saturating even our network connections.

The problem caused make our server to become unreachable (or very slow) from the Internet.

We take reliability seriously. Unfortunately, this is by far the largest attack we’ve seen on our network . We sincerely regret and apologize for the impact this had on our customers
We working very hard to fix this issue...

thanks

n3fta · February 9th, 2010, 11:48 AM

Very interesting hiway thanks for the post. The thing about this attack is it's illegal to attack servers like this so if it is DN they are breaking the law attacking Sonysat's servers. This definetly wouldn't get DN anywhere in a court room. This could just be some random hacker who has a beef with Sonysat, but 2Gbps is unheard of.

Is this what people have been calling ecm's? Is this the same reason the other receivers have been going down? With this info now public maybe we can finally get some answears as to what's really going on when these IKS servers go down.

February 8th, 2010, 09:37 PM	#1
hiway Super Moderator Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 91 Thanks: 3 Thanked 31 Times in 22 Posts	Sonysat Denial of service attack c/p Beginning at 6:16 PM Eastern Time Today evening, we began experiencing a “distributed denial of service” attack aimed at our “EKE” server. The attack used more than 2 Gbps of network bandwidth from several thousand different IP addresses. This is an extremely high amount of traffic, saturating even our network connections. The problem caused make our server to become unreachable (or very slow) from the Internet. We take reliability seriously. Unfortunately, this is by far the largest attack we’ve seen on our network . We sincerely regret and apologize for the impact this had on our customers We working very hard to fix this issue... thanks

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

February 9th, 2010, 11:48 AM	#2
n3fta Administrator Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 976 Thanks: 131 Thanked 166 Times in 130 Posts	Very interesting hiway thanks for the post. The thing about this attack is it's illegal to attack servers like this so if it is DN they are breaking the law attacking Sonysat's servers. This definetly wouldn't get DN anywhere in a court room. This could just be some random hacker who has a beef with Sonysat, but 2Gbps is unheard of. Is this what people have been calling ecm's? Is this the same reason the other receivers have been going down? With this info now public maybe we can finally get some answears as to what's really going on when these IKS servers go down.