05-22-2018, 05:17 PM
The good news is they fixed the element that was causing the security warnings.
Their explanation for what happened makes my brain hurt:
As I mentioned upthread here, that doesn't make sense.
A DDoS would have knocked everything offline, not just the forums, and it wouldn't have caused a database corruption.
DDoS attacks are a huuuuuuuge flood of "dumb"/simple data requests that overwhelm the server itself.
I have seen cracker attacks corrupt forum databases, but that has nothing to do with DDoS attacks.
Their explanation for what happened makes my brain hurt:
Quote:Why did it crash? •Our webmaster reported a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack that bombarded our server with so many nonsensical requests that it could no longer function correctly, corrupting the database. Hackers.
As I mentioned upthread here, that doesn't make sense.
A DDoS would have knocked everything offline, not just the forums, and it wouldn't have caused a database corruption.
DDoS attacks are a huuuuuuuge flood of "dumb"/simple data requests that overwhelm the server itself.
I have seen cracker attacks corrupt forum databases, but that has nothing to do with DDoS attacks.
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