Evidence of DOS Attacks
Adam Steinbaugh, an aspiring lawyer externing at Baker, Keener & Nahra who was once the Student Body President at Whittier College, has questioned whether my network has suffered any Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. This table displays an excerpt, broken down by host (IP address, each representing an individual or computer), of recent traffic to my network that is or was abusive in nature. In addition to traffic details, the table also includes the “User-Agent” string contained in the requests. In all of these cases, the traffic was generated by “scraper” programs — software ostensibly designed to capture the contents of a site. In most cases, the scraper software was executed in a way that was intended to cause service outages on my network, which constitutes a DOS attack. The stats speak for themselves.
| Host | PVs | Hits | Bandwidth | Hostname | Location | User-Agent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71.125.224.14 | 47317 | 359242 | 735.71 MB | pool-71-125-224-14.nycmny.east.verizon.net | Uniondale, New York, United States | Xenu Link Sleuth/1.3.8 |
| 66.189.146.150 | 38536 | 220076 | 18.56 GB | 66-189-146-150.dhcp.mdfd.or.charter.com | Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States | WebReaper [info@webreaper.net] |
| 74.65.15.113 | 38380 | 119189 | 947.84 MB | cpe-74-65-15-113.rochester.res.rr.com | Rochester, New York, United States | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT) |
| 152.18.146.1 | 38402 | 99430 | 10.16 GB | dhcp-1.rbh031-1.fs.unca.edu | Asheville, North Carolina, United States | Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98) |
| 84.249.126.153 | 37902 | 68137 | 13.56 GB | dsl-tkubrasgw3-fe7ef900-153.dhcp.inet.fi | Turku, Western Finland, Finland | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 |
| 82.32.30.254 | 61103 | 67420 | 2.43 GB | cpc1-aztw4-0-0-cust1789.18-1.cable.virginmedia.com | Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom | SiteSucker/2.3.6 |
| 62.193.53.30 | 50872 | 64905 | 5.60 GB | 62-193-53-30.stella-net.net | Valbonne, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France | Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98) |
| 24.60.13.42 | 31659 | 37290 | 2.35 GB | c-24-60-13-42.hsd1.ma.comcast.net | Quincy, Massachusetts, United States | Wget/1.10.2 |
| 187.45.182.236 | 19847 | 21958 | 845.28 MB | br-187-45-182-236.bsnservers.com | Brazil | SiteSucker/2.3.6 |
| 50.0.192.171 | 10985 | 20081 | 3.28 GB | 50-0-192-171.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net | California, United States | SiteSucker/2.3.6 |
| 98.194.77.7 | 4103 | 19896 | 218.67 MB | c-98-194-77-7.hsd1.tx.comcast.net | Lake Jackson, Texas, United States | Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) |
| 24.84.232.173 | 16260 | 19729 | 1.19 GB | 0106602ad0845277.vc.shawcable.net | North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98) |
| 68.175.111.58 | 13222 | 14802 | 855.56 MB | cpe-68-175-111-58.nyc.res.rr.com | New York, United States | SiteSucker/2.3.6 |
| 99.104.36.235 | 4146 | 10842 | 1.51 GB | 99-104-36-235.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net | Richardson, Texas, United States | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0 |
| 88.180.113.192 | 2950 | 10230 | 1.53 GB | tru75-9-88-180-113-192.fbx.proxad.net | Paris, Ile-de-France, France | Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98) |
| 68.71.58.169 | 6358 | 7390 | 919.69 MB | prod00.s.yvr.fullmeshnetworks.com | Laval, Quebec, Canada | SiteSucker/2.3.6 |
| 84.43.160.241 | 26363 | 56323 | 8.92 GB | cable-84-43-160-241.mnet.bg | Varna, Bulgaria | Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98) |
| 59.146.51.53 | 28931 | 37358 | 2.02 GB | p923335.szoknt01.ap.so-net.ne.jp | Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan | SiteSucker/2.3.6 |
| 108.242.218.93 | 26354 | 34242 | 12.35 GB | 108-242-218-93.lightspeed.lbcktx.sbcglobal.net | Richardson, Texas, United States | Wget/1.11.4 |