Yesterday morning, Brett Winterford at ITNews revealed that broadband forums site Whirlpool was the victim of a DDoS attack that brought down the site. The site went down, then came back up before being hit by another attack today. But why?
ITNews reported that Bulletproof – who hosts the Whirlpool site – jumped on the attack quickly and moved to take down Whirlpool so as not to crush their network. After today’s attack, it seems they have enough information to pass onto the NSW police, who will pass the information onto the feds.
But who would want to attack a forum for geeks to talk about broadband (and other geeky stuff) in the first place? Bulletproof COO Lorenzo Modesto joked to ITNews yesterday that it “looks like Whirlpool was the target of at least 20,000 spams or scams coming through the portal,” and while that makes us laugh, we think you guys can create a slightly better excuse.
So tell us – who would want to DDoS Whirlpool? And to what purpose?
[ITNews]
Gerard Dummett
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 4:50 PMBatman…
Jed
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 4:53 PMSteven Baker.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/29/2940413.htm?site=sport§ion=afl
Curtis
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:03 PMno doubt stephen conroy for making him look like a total fool.
BagleyJones
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:05 PMIt was Conroy. He was under the belief that all high volume bandwidth broadband users on Whirlpool would be involved in kiddy porn, and that given the chance they’d all “opt in” on porn… So he had a secret arm of the goverment hack the website in order to take down these would be, be woulding, wood chuckers who chuck….?
Nato
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 1:30 PMIt definitely wasn’t Conroy. His three year old daughter, maybe.
Andy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:15 PMKurt Russell & his team went through the portal and found what they thought was a big pool of spams & scams. They notified Stephen Conroy who said that he knows who can pull the job off perfectly & referred them onto his 3 year old daughter who locked up the site using her dad’s iphone.
Gareth Redshaw
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:16 PMWhirlpool white goods appliances. Either that or whoever was the most high profile person to get banned from the site…
Sam Pryor
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:21 PMIt was us HTC Hero owners looking for info on the 2.1 update delays.
Simon
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:21 PMIt looks like Conroy under that balaclava, he’s behind it!
How long are those threads on whirlpool that bag out on him or his internet filter?
I take that back because:
1) He wouldn’t even know what DDoS stands for
2) He would just use the excuse “My kid unlocked my iPhone, pressed a few buttons and broke the intarnet for Whirlpool”
Daniel T
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:24 PMSerbians upset over loss to Australia in Worldcup??
I think i`m reaching with that one.
woodsdog
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:26 PMits got to be the “portal” that we were all looking for… its not a DoS attack, its just thousands of people trying to get to the “Portal”
UpaGumtree
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:30 PMThe mods have cheesed someone off big time, now its their turn to be SILENCED!!!!!!!
Long live the Regional Forum we will not be SILENCED!!! :)
Steve
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:30 PMNo we are the Judain peoples front!
Paul Grenfell
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:36 PMSub human extra terrestial andriods, feeding off available sources of terestial knowledge. In preparation of an all out invasion of earth disguised as geeks.
SpecialK
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 5:58 PMWhirlpool isn’t broken or being DDoS’d. We’re just holding it the wrong way!
Ben
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:05 PMIt’s still down for me! As a 10-year member I need my daily Whirlpool fix… (GUWCT?)
Paul
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:10 PMThere have been complaints about over zealous moderation in recent months. It is an IT community, plenty of members would have the skills, perhaps someone felt the moderators had gone too far.
Still, it seems rather unfair to work out a grudge by holding the entire Whirlpool community to ransom and possibly affecting the future of Whirlpool itself.
Simon has tweeted that the “Attacks are no match for our laid back attitude”. Good on him, but according to news stories, Bullet Proof seem less than happy about the possible effects on their other customers, so might Whirlpool be looking for another host?
Paul
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:47 PMReplying to myself, but good to see that Whirlpool is back online.
matt
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:12 PMit wasn’t a DoS attack, it was Chuck Norris flaming.
Tom McQuarrie
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:13 PMTelstra hands down. Whirlpool gives consumers enough information to make informed decisions about ISP’s, and informed people don’t choose Telstra (unless they absolutely have to).
Bob
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:25 PMThe Sun. (that fiery ball of light in the sky)
We all know the Sun has been trying to systematically destroy human life, and it’s started by trying to take down Whirlpool.
My friends, we must nuke the Sun.
-bob
bobulations ltd ptd © ® co
junglerise
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:34 PMKevin Rudd ,,,
He is a Nerd,
He is pissed off,
Nothing will stop him ..
well apart form Julia that is ..
stevjosco
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:59 PMlol catz haz DDoS takes down ur whirlpoolz
D
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:08 PMConroy.
Blindwilly
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:16 PMIt was KRudd – he’s got some spare time…
Rupert
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:25 PMIt was Stephen Conroy’s daughter playing with his iPhone again.
Funny thing is, she knew what the DDoS app did, he didn’t when he bought it.
Chemenski
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:33 PMIt was me O_o just because I can.
Josh
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:34 PMIt was iPhone 4 users annoyed with their crappy reception.