Oh, makes sense. Also, it should not come as a surprise that the two biggest communist powers of the world are cooperating (don't give me the bull that Russia is democratic, that country is ALL BUT democratic). I hate the Russian and Chinese governments, they screw over so many people! First, China is North Korea's shield, which lets them further torture poor people, then Russia starts slowly taking over Eastern Europe under stupid pretexts.
Right after I last posted, the map lit up like a Christmas tree, and most of my sites, including this one, went down for me. It's been happening more than usual over the past week or so, and this one was a bad one, I ended up just shutting down for a while. From what I've heard, our electric grid will be targeted, which is worrisome. Most of us don't have back up power, so would be affected, at least until the grid could be restored.
I guess the question that I am asking myself, as cool as that map looks and all- how do we know it is real? It looks like St Louis is still all lite up today, which is Sunday night and the stock exchange is definitely not open. Just for chuckles and grins I compared this to information on the Internet Traffic report that is an indicator of web traffic in various states at the main hubs, St Lois is fine, Texas, Georgia and Anaheim not so much so. Wouldn't it stand to reason if these were DOS attacks there would be some sort of correlation between the two sources information wise? Isn't that what a DOS attack is-bombardment that causes packet loss? I will say though that it does look very cool, I am just not certain the level of faith I have in it just yet. I don't know why but for as long as I have been on the net denying other folks the use of the internet has been a problem I never really understood this, reminds me of when mom says you've been bad and you can't watch TV or something.
Analog X? Not to sure what you clicked there Diane, you are in the states right? the URL is for the site internettrafficreport.com I had it go right to the North America portion. Now this is just a thought, I read this morning on the news wire that Anonymous had hacked radio station in Indiana are you in Indiana? I did a keyword search on the term "Analog X" It appears that it can also be a Trojan horse virus, I am wondering if your computer is infected with a virus? Didn't you say you were having all sorts of connection issues recently?
No, because Internet traffic generally counts HTML traffic, and if you look at the Norse map, very few of the attacks are done through HTML. There are several ways in which attacks are made, most of which I don't understand, but they include telnet, ds, vnc, tcpmux, isakmp, csdm, sentinelsrm, hermes, unpin, and other connections that I don't know what they are, as well as through email connections, etc. This isn't counted as Internet traffic, yet it bogs down the servers. Much of it is intended to distract, I am sure, while others are designed to allow hackers to access these sites while the IT teams are busy trying to keep the networks from crashing.
AnalogX is also a legitimate software company so, while I have no doubt that there may be a Trojan that identifies itself as AnalogX, it could also be legitimate. Since AnalogX is not a Mac thing, I am not familiar with it, but it does seem to be legitimate. That's one of the bad things about the bad guys, who make viruses, trojans, and other malware, is that they often identify themselves as something legitimate.
@Jenn Windey When I click your link, at top right, it says AnalogX, and it's also mentioned in the FAQ. Do y'all not see that? I wouldn't doubt that I have a virus, but I clearly see it in both places on that site. Thanks, @Ken Anderson for the information, hopefully the site itself, and information provided is legitimate, but I am not sure why I was denied when I clicked for more information on AnalogX on the site Jenn posted.
Her link is to a page of internettrafficreport.com for North America Internet traffic. It seems that, for some reason, you are being redirected to something related or identified as AnalogX.
Yes, that's the page I'm seeing, but at top right, just off the side of the the header is AnalogX, in the blue.
I see what you mean. From the FAQ on that site: Q: Who is AnalogX? A: AnalogX has made several of the new enhancements to the existing Internet Traffic Report website, and is in the process of completely overhauling the whole system to support many new and exciting features. For more information about AnalogX specifically, please visit the Official AnalogX Website.
Yes, and then when I click on this: Official AnalogX Website to go to their website, I get this, which makes me question the site/source: Server Error 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. I'm just glad I'm not the only one seeing the blue box and their name in the FAQ, y'all had me thinking I was seeing things
I don't know what to say. Norse is a major provider of Internet security, such as which I could never afford, and AnalogX is a genuine company, which has been around for a long while. Beyond that, I have no stake in what you believe or don't believe.
Don't believe for a second that the US are not the number one in hacking. The NSA is listening to everything and everyone. They have hacked into everyone telephone computer they are putting smart meters on houses to know when you put on your morning coffee. I don't know who funded the web site or how they know as most all hacks are redirected though other places and bounced off satellites.