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Iran Attempts 10,000 Cyberattacks Against Texas Every Minute
2020-01-09
[Newsmax] The state of Texas is grappling with up to 10,000 attempted cyberattacks from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
every sixty seconds.

Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
revealed the startling news Tuesday, saying the uptick in attempted intrusions on Texas Department of Information Resources servers began this week.

"We have no way of knowing whether anything is government-based or not, or government-sanctioned. What we're doing is scanning on our state networks, and we can see where attacks are coming from," the agency's executive director Amanda Crawford told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
They can? How clever of them.
As of Tuesday afternoon, no computers or servers had been compromised in the ongoing cyberattack.
Goodness. Those Iranians are just all kinds of incompetent these days.
"These sorts of attacks happen every day. It happened yesterday. It's going to happen tomorrow," Crawford said. "This is just in particular because of events that are going on, we're being extra vigilant."
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Posted by:trailing wife

#11   How about some counterattacks?

Poss as unproductive as shooting people throwing stones.

It should be a simple matter to put a firewall in front of all of our backbone nodes that would prevent anything from any of those addresses getting through to Texas or Utah or any other computer in America.

The long game con backtracks IP relay cluster pathing. Neophytes believe anonymity abstraction is insulation but given sufficient analysis even multi-link random routing, clusters. Link analysis gives optimized target points.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-09 16:08  

#10  Maybe we should be trying ti increase system security rather than agitating for government backdoors.
Posted by: Thaise Guelph8492   2020-01-09 15:56  

#9  There are people in the government who know the range of internet addresses that are assigned to Iran. It should be a simple matter to put a firewall in front of all of our backbone nodes that would prevent anything from any of those addresses getting through to Texas or Utah or any other computer in America. Why is this not being done?

And while they're at it they should do the same to China, Russia and Ukraine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-01-09 11:35  

#8  Those are rookie numbers.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-01-09 10:34  

#7  "The Iranian mad mullahs are trying to attack the Alamo, Commander!" Davy Crockett

"Thank gawd it's not the meskins again!" Jim Bowie

Posted by: Slairt Hatfield8691   2020-01-09 10:01  

#6  Democrats are probably doing 20,000/day.
Posted by: Beau   2020-01-09 08:50  

#5  So that's why my MMO was wonky yesterday. The servers are in TX.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-09 08:32  

#4  g(r)om_ they're still picking pieces of their first set of centrifuges out of the walls. Ima think there are still some fingers in that pie.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-01-09 07:39  

#3  How about some counterattacks?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-09 06:40  

#2  and Utah
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-09 05:17  

#1  Bad DOS attack?
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-01-09 00:46  

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