twas the night before payday - a tale of ddos attacks
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'Twas the night before payday, when all through the net,Most attackers were stirring, increasing the threat.
Tomorrow’s targets were chosen, sighted in their crosshairs,In hopes the victims, soon would be theirs.
Now Hping, Now Fragroute, Ion Cannon and Tor,On, Metasploit, On, Slowloris, they can’t take much more.
The precision, the amount, the attacks they did fly,Offline they were not, but they were ready to die.
I cranked up the volume, the attacks how they flew,Killer scripts and password guessers, I was using them too.
Partial saturation and hacktools, I gained access to root,My precious cargo would gain me, a bag full of loot.
This was getting too easy, this new way to hack,I was the first one to use it, call me first in the pack.
So I picked a new target, and placed them firmly in sight,This was going to be easy, I could do this all night.
Then something was different, I hadn’t seen it before,My tools no longer working, I couldn’t get to the core.
I began scratching my head, and questioning myself,I pullout out all of the stops, using every tool on the shelf.
I couldn’t take the site down, its responses weren’t dead.I thought I could easily, put this one to bed.
I was getting frustrated, my screen suddenly froze,I pulled out my hair, and ripped open my clothes.
I rebooted and restarted, every tool without dismissal,I hit them with everything I had, accept a nuke missile.
I was king of my game, more like an old pharaoh,Until I met a security company, we call them Corero.