catziggy
01-12-2007, 19:37
Sadly for a short while Punksbusted is off line.
They have suffered a Denial of Service attack which is basically a virus that logs into thousands of unsuspecting pc's that then transmit data, ping checks whatever to the Punksbusted home site. This chews up their bandwisth and brings it to its knees.
As a result they are moving their site to a new service provider that offfers protection from this type of attack which their current provider cannot.
Nice to see they are annoying the hackers to hell.
What does this mean to us?
Not a lot. We stream realtime to pbbans.com which ensures that all the time every player is checked for illegal hacks etc.
Punksbusted was the main site for checking screenshots but it was manual and not as fast as PB. The two complement each other but for us PBBANS is far more of an assett to catching punks.
They have suffered a Denial of Service attack which is basically a virus that logs into thousands of unsuspecting pc's that then transmit data, ping checks whatever to the Punksbusted home site. This chews up their bandwisth and brings it to its knees.
As a result they are moving their site to a new service provider that offfers protection from this type of attack which their current provider cannot.
Nice to see they are annoying the hackers to hell.
What does this mean to us?
Not a lot. We stream realtime to pbbans.com which ensures that all the time every player is checked for illegal hacks etc.
Punksbusted was the main site for checking screenshots but it was manual and not as fast as PB. The two complement each other but for us PBBANS is far more of an assett to catching punks.