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Irish Times: "CAO.ie down due to 'cyber attack'". Really?

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  • #2
    JaTochNietDan
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭JaTochNietDan


    Yeah I think that's jumping to conclusions. I find it hard to believe someone would initiate a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the CAO website at this specific time, maybe a really angry internet peoples didn't get a spot and decided to unleash his botnet in frustration? :)

    I doubht it though, it's just a wave of people checking their application status.


  • #3
    RoRoCullen
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭RoRoCullen


    ITS FINALLY BACK!


  • #4
    LadyGaga!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭LadyGaga!


    Sounds like someone didn't get their course and got a bit angry :D


  • #5
    UnionOfV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭UnionOfV


    LadyGaga! wrote: »
    Sounds like someone didn't get their course and got a bit angry :D
    So, we're looking at an Irish student entering 3rd level education who didn't get his first choice and so happens to have access to some sort of a small botnet or private network? :rolleyes: I'm pretty sure if it was an attack there woudn't be too many suspects! :pac:


  • #6
    LadyGaga!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭LadyGaga!


    UnionOfV wrote: »
    So, we're looking at an Irish student entering 3rd level education who didn't get his first choice and so happens to have access to some sort of a small botnet or private network? :rolleyes: I'm pretty sure if it was an attack there woudn't be too many suspects! :pac:

    Why would anybody else target the CAO of all websites though!

    It's also not as hard as you think to crash a website! You can use online tools to refresh a page every 3 seconds even!


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  • #7
    UnionOfV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭UnionOfV


    LadyGaga! wrote: »
    It's also not as hard as you think to crash a website! You can use online tools to refresh a page every 3 seconds even!
    This site is (well should) be equipped to cope with a sudden large increase in traffic for results day and today, so I wouldn't try to saturate it with a single machine. If it can (could) handle 70,000 people logging on at pretty much the same time, my little netbook refreshing the front page every few seconds isn't going to do much (though I'd love to try some day :D watch out class of 2011!!)


  • #8
    peanuthead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    where can I actually get a copy of these results online?

    Cant read the scanned ones and can't leave house to get paper


  • #9
    UnionOfV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭UnionOfV


    If you mean your leaving cert results, you should have gotten login info in the mail a month or two back. You can use them to log into examinations.ie, although I think if you want an official statement of results you have to order it.

    If you mean the points requirements for each course, google is your friend :)


  • #10
    LadyGaga!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭LadyGaga!


    peanuthead wrote: »
    where can I actually get a copy of these results online?

    Cant read the scanned ones and can't leave house to get paper

    Someone put this up: http://gavreilly.com/cao2010/


  • #11
    jackburke
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭jackburke


    Here's an interesting article on the CAO attack that says it may have easily been averted with some proper coding practices.

    http://www.dot-ie.com/2010/08/cao-website/


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