Be Aware!! Russian DDOS Hacker Ivan Ivanov of Khabarovsk

[Valery Kholodkov]

If things are so complex, could you at least ban him?

Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> On 8/12/11 6:34 AM, Valery Kholodkov wrote:
>> Sounds like a dark PR of Amazon Cloud Services. Well, I can image, hating Russians is profitable...
> 
> I don't think this has anything to do with Amazon.
> 
>> Would it be possible to tell me your name, residence address and occupation please?
> 
> I can tell you that he uses a proxy server in Texas, but my best guess
> is he's from Hong Kong based on his email domain.
> 
> I don't know his motives but such stories of DDoS attacks originating in
> states of the former Soviet Union, and in China for that matter, are not
> that uncommon. In fact, the huge recent DDoS attack on WordPress.com was
> based in China. So maybe we shouldn't trust Chinese either. (j/k)
> However, there are criminals everywhere.
> 
>> ----- ex2501 <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
>>> Since last week, Our website SuntekStore.com  has been under DDOS
>>> (Distributed Denial Of Service)attack by someone who goes by the name of
>>> Ivan Alekseevich Ivanov from Khabarovsk, Russia and he demanded $3,500
>>> to stop the attack. We ignored him and decided to try Amazon Cloud
>>> Service.
>>>
>>> Please beware of Russians!! I also searched the Internet for better ways
>>> to prevent DDOS ATTACK. All I got was 'prevention is better than cure'. 
>>> It said that DDOS happens because of vulnerable softwares/applications
>>> running on a machines in a particular network. If there is any good
>>> idea, please tell me here:)
>>>
>>> First Name - Ivan Alekseevich
>>> Last Name - Ivanov
>>> country - Russia 
>>> City - Khabarovsk
>>> zhakkab at gmail.com
>>>
>>> Above is what we know about the hacker.

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Best regards,
Valery Kholodkov