Posted on 02/28/2021 12:21:36 PM PST by USA Conservative
Former President Donald Trump will close out the Conservative Political Action Conference today with his first public address since leaving the White House on Jan. 20.
The former president is scheduled to take the stage at 3:40 p.m. Sunday.
But as Trump is getting ready to start his speech Ian Miles Cheong tweeted that CPAC’s website is being DDOS’d.
On CPAC’s Wikipedia page their official website is https://cpac.conservative.org/ which at the moment is not accessible.
Image below:
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by utilizing multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic. Exploited machines can include computers and other networked resources such as IoT devices.
From a high level, a DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination.
DDoS attacks are carried out with networks of Internet-connected machines.
These networks consist of computers and other devices (such as IoT devices)which have been infected with malware, allowing them to be controlled remotely by an attacker. These individual devices are referred to as bots (or zombies), and a group of bots is called a botnet.
Once a botnet has been established, the attacker is able to direct an attack by sending remote instructions to each bot.
People online reacted and even asked the FBI to get involved:
This news is still unconfirmed but we will update the story as soon as we have more news about this alleged attack.
That was it. They were spending a few minutes on rush.
CSPAN has the same stream.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?509084-1/president-trump-addresses-cpac&live
C-SPAN channel 350 on Directv.
No c-span, but getting it on America’s Voice. Starting to get glitchy, though.
Trump running late!
Fox Nation
Is working for me.
You must be joking!?!
Yap CSPAN is broadcasting every minute of CPAC :)
Or guard the donuts.
Peach
Try CSPAN.
Live feed, uninterrupted on Fox Nation.
DJT appearance imminent at 1547 Eastern
100 million users connecting enmasse can appear to be a DDOS.
They probably got surprised by the volume.
Yup
I think you are right.
Is that Fox news?
I’m switching to the NASCAR race (back & forth). Joey Logano not Biden!!!
Not Fox News
Fox Nation, a subscription offered by Fox.
Not joking = he’s there, but not on stage yet.
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ~ Tyrion Lannister
Yep
“Very soon” per Matt
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