My Opera Development

Если судить по тому как я пользуюсь сайтом, то у вас постоянные аттаки!!!
Judging by how I use the site, then you have constant attacks!

MyOpera works for several months as bad as if he had all this time under a DDoS-attack.

Little scrip-kiddies with too much time on their hands.

Seems they're always having trouble mounting successful DDoS attacks against you guys. What could it be? Beefy internet connection? Powerful hardware? Efficient software? Or maybe some rough and hardened server admins, that wrestle grizzly bears when they're not running the server? Either way, great work guys!

Originally posted by d4rkn1ght:

Little scrip-kiddies with too much time on their hands.

agreed, true hackers would have no trouble getting in.

Thanks for the Heads Up, Andreas!
Communicating something like this to the community is always a great idea so that we don't have to wonder what the heck is up. We don't have to rack our brains trying to troubleshoot and wonder whether the problem is on our end.

Limit no of connections per IP.

Originally posted by Tamil:

Limit no of connections per IP.

Tamil, the site's ability to address IP bans would reflect the incoming connections as a null result.

Hmm ... I noticed some pages were a little slow. I'd say that's a big FAIL on the part of the script kiddies.

I see the battle stations have been maned

Originally posted by Suntana:

Communicating something like this to the community is always a great idea so that we don't have to wonder what the heck is up. We don't have to rack our brains trying to troubleshoot and wonder whether the problem is on our end.

+1

Yes, thanks for the heads-up! .

Will I notice the slowness on opera mini?

Originally posted by billsofat:

Will I notice the slowness on opera mini?

the only reason i would say no, is mini is debuffed in connection speed due to cell use. if you notice a difference, it'll be small to do nothing.

I KNOW A SOLUTION! Perform an ATT!

We are behind you!

Sooo ... is MyOpera STILL under DDoS Attack?
I'm operating under the assumption that it still is because I'm still experiencing very bad functionality. I often even have to close Opera and reopen it to get MyOpera to again work.

Originally posted by Suntana:

is MyOpera STILL under DDoS Attack?

Last I heard it was! .

I guess the effect, a slow down in speed and so forth, will also be either mitigated or made worse depending on what connection users have.

I'm on cable and I've noticed the slowdown but most of the time (ohoh! saying this, maybe I'm tempting fate!) the functionality seems to be working, although yesterday on a few occasions I had "Bad Gateway" messages when I tried to get in.
Today it all seems to be working fine from where I sit (fingers crossed!).

Andreas... Well done for making the announcement and letting us know what is happening!
Thanks!

Originally posted by lokutus-prime:

yesterday on a few occasions I had "Bad Gateway" messages

That appears to be the most common symptom. The other symptom is the connection is closed by the 'remote server' .
All things considered, these script kiddies must be putting in a phenomenal effort to get even this far. Your average small website would probably have crashed completely by now! .

I guess this is still an ongoing issue by the number of 502 Bad Gateway errors I'm getting while trying to use the forums.

Originally posted by Luxor:

f 502 Bad Gateway errors

I've had a few today when I try to change tabs or refresh my page.. and as well as that, the speed is way down again. Takes much longer moving between pages in my blog and to other blogs.

Yes, unfortunately the attack is still going. We're doing what we can, but unfortunately the occasional "502 Bad Gateway" message is hard to avoid.

Thanks for the update Andreas.
Guess it's even more annoying for you guys than us members.

Will these help?

Also, can't you do a counter attacks of the DDOS?

I infer MyOpera is already doing robust contingency defence.
Using resources to mount an offence would be useless against the script kiddies... it's better to focus available defensive resources, IMHO.

DDoS means Distributed Denial of Service. Distributed, means the source is several machines, and they're distributed over many networks in different locations. It's called Denial of Service, because the service is being overloaded in order to make it unavailable.

In this case, you probably can't fight fire with fire. My Opera has only one network. The attackers have lots of them. I think the attackers will be abusing the web services on My Opera. And I doubt the attacking machines accept incoming connections like the My Opera servers do. Thus there's probably no way to mount a successful counterattack.

But maybe it would be possible to stop the attack if the ISP's of the attacking machines could detect DoS traffic and deny their connection attempts towards My Opera. Maybe it's even possible to sue ISP's for having machines doing DoS on their WAN?

Originally posted by drlaunch:

DDoS means Distributed Denial of Service. Distributed, means the source is several machines, and they're distributed over many networks in different locations. It's called Denial of Service, because the service is being overloaded in order to make it unavailable.

In this case, you probably can't fight fire with fire. My Opera has only one network. The attackers have lots of them. I think the attackers will be abusing the web services on My Opera. And I doubt the attacking machines accept incoming connections like the My Opera servers do. Thus there's probably no way to mount a successful counterattack.

But maybe it would be possible to stop the attack if the ISP's of the attacking machines could detect DoS traffic and deny their connection attempts towards My Opera. Maybe it's even possible to sue ISP's for having machines doing DoS on their WAN?

if your talking counter measures, only two come to mind, shut down servers, removes open bandwidth IP acks.

Well, whatever the case, I sure hope that this doesn't mean we now just have to live with this, deal with this from now on.

Opera ASI is indeed working on something, I've been around and talked to certain devs. They arn't just going to let it happen. The network they have has stood against it for what? Three weeks? The fact it's taking this long only means they are indeed have problem finding a solution worthy of this problem. Have patience.

My Opera is just like a snail on Opera Mobile

I assume this is still ongoing? I can hardly use Opera at all at the moment

Good luck to the developers

yes good luck
I don't understand why in the evening in Europe is better ? in the day it's impossible, we renounce to use it

we certainly do got hostiles... time to run that old Enterprise singalong... maybe that'll work and scare off the cling on DDos spooks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AM_fpspCq2c

Tonight I made up my mind to stop using opera blog and photo for a while.
Hea_________vy and often I got 502 Bad Gateway.

Loku, if they can be scared off, that will do it

The site's responding like nothing's wrong in Australia this morning! Could the dark days be behind us?

it's Facebook maybe ....
29 May 2012
"Rumors around that Facebook wants to get their hands on the browser from Opera Software. "

Adele... we are a scary bunch so I think we got advantage

Originally posted by clean:

nothing's wrong in Australia this morning!

I don't seem to have problem during NZ morning, up till about 1400 (Around 0200 UTC). It doesn't necessarily mean the attackers are based in the time zone that wakes up around that time. But makes me wonder.

Originally posted by opcat:

maybe ....

You read my mind.

Originally posted by lokutus-prime:

we are a scary bunch so I think we got advantage

We are the Borg ... Good on ya!!


I have to say it is sad to see some people saying they will stop or already stopped blogging and/or photo sharing at My Opera because of the slowness and other troubles caused by the attack. Do they not realise that is the exact effect the attackers want to create? To me they are in effect supporting attackers.

Just agree with u.

I don't think that the attackers are necessarily based in thet time zone, MM, but the machines they've managed to enslave probably are. People get up, turn on their machines, and we're under attack. The machines' owners probably have no idea that they're doing it. They may even be machines used in businesses.
However ... today seems to be free of the problem ... the Powers That Be may have stumbled on a solution. I was checking out Steve Gibson's site this morning, to see if I could find any suggestions, because I know he has managed to write some routines that prevent attacks of this sort.

It wasn't good for me when I switched on my computer about five hours ago, but it's stable now. I'm even tempted to try writing a blog post

Originally posted by derWandersmann:

... the Powers That Be may have stumbled on a solution.

Praise Be! .. to The Powers That Be ... we are now borne again ( aloft) ... in the MyOpera balloon

Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

We are the Borg ... Good on ya!!

We will assimilate the DDos.

They will be added to our data experience of WTF.

Resistance is futile, ScriptJerk attackers.

We are the Borgia Borg.

Originally posted by lokutus-prime:

Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

We are the Borg ... Good on ya!!

We will assimilate the DDos. They will be added to our data experience of WTF. Resistance is futile, ScriptJerk attackers. We are the Borgia Borg.

That means we are assimliated borgs Free me !!!

Originally posted by wikipedian:

assimliated borgs

Turning into a borg would make blogging more instanteous, surely? On the downside, all our blogs would probably be identical

Instant agreement, anyway ... no arguments.