Announcement made by Neobux today
Just a small notice to a few users:
There was a large DDoS attack being made on a global scale.
Although it didn't affect us directly, I had reports from a few users that were unable to access the site which I verified to be true. This happened due to an automatically IP blocking in the DDoS mitigation services which, in the case of an attack, get more sensitive and may block a user for repeated access.
The forum was immediately shut down to avoid users from seeing more pages then they should as it would most likely result in more users being blocked accidentally.
Although this only happened to a few users, this message is for them to understand what really happened. The report I had just now was that only 147 IP addresses (probably less users than that) were blocked due to suspicious activity. By "suspicious" it doesn't really mean that those users did anything wrong.
All services, except for the forum, have been operating normally and no fluctuation was seen in the usual activity for the past hours.
Since the attack can be easily mitigated, I asked for the few blocked IPs to be whitelisted and they shouldn't have any issues from now on.
If anything else happens I'll keep you posted.
Thank you.
What is DDoS attack?
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. The term is generally used with regards to computer networks, but is not limited to this field, for example, it is also used in reference to CPU resource management.
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