I remember the days when DDoS attacks were something worse than could happen to a server/network administrator... There was no good protection against them, or if there was, it was super-expensive and affordable only for big companies with huge budgets... But, on the other side, to "execute" the DDoS attack, you needed a bot network with tons of different IPs, from various locations, and all that cost a lot of money! So, even if you wanted to harm someone, you needed a lot of money to do it...
I also remember that back in the days, I had some crazy good machines for my clients, and sometimes, these DDoS attacks weren't good enough to overwhelm the machine and to cause bigger harm... So, there was a possibility to "beat" the attacker... To have better cards in the hand...
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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.
source: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-attack/
As the Internet was growing, more networks were added, more IPs, more machines, more bots, etc. These attacks became stronger and stronger... A few decades ago, these attacks were short, 15-30 minutes... as they were expensive... Today, they can last for hours and hours, if not even days! Truth to be told, the prevention tools also became more powerful, successfully mitigating attacks, but not always...
In the last few weeks, I did have a couple of these on my hosting machine that I described in my recent post... Some of them were mitigated by my hosting company, others weren't... Cloudflare can be useful too... So, if you don't have any protection, maybe it's not a bad idea to try CF service... They have a free option too, and it can help a bit...
Unfortunately, after having issues on my hosting side, from yesterday, someone is targeting "public" Hive-Engine nodes with DDoS attacks! If you had problems in the last 24-48 hours with Hive-Engine, history nodes, that is the reason behind it... Is there a solution for these attacks? Tweaking scripts, having more powerful machines, and limiting resources can help... But, both sides are working at the same time... Hackers and app developers...
Who will win? Why do these DDoS attacks even exist? I don't know... Sometimes, hackers do it to try to find the "way in" to the infrastructure, to make some benefits in the long run... Also, many shady things can happen... People are jealous of each other, envy, or there can be a competition doing it... Rival blockchain? Who knows... The only thing that we can do is to try to prevent them in the future, and to minimize the damage as much as possible... Bad people and bad actors in the space will always exist...
Let's see the WorkerBee Pool numbers for this week...
This week, we have mined 82 BEE tokens in total, 11 less than the week before! 🙁
This week, we didn't get new delegators! On the other side, we got new delegations from old members, as usual! Thanks, guys! Appreciate your support!
This POOL doesn't have fees, and you get up to 20% MORE by delegating to it!
What about the bonus tokens?
This week, it's time for distributing some LEN tokens as our BONUS reward! You probably know the background of the token as I'm one of the co-owners of the Liotes project, where LEN is one of the two official tokens... As LEN tokens have a small inflation that comes from LENM miners, the token price is pretty stable, indexed in HIVE... There are 2 diesel pools where users can provide liquidity, and in one of them, they can earn additional rewards (besides FEEs collected from transactions)! Some of the rewards are very interesting, so more and more people decide to put those LEN (and LENM) tokens to work, creating passive income...
There will be distributed 55 LEN tokens to the delegators of the pool as a bonus reward today!
55 LEN tokens will be distributed as a bonus... The APR (without the bonus) was 10.107%, and when we added the bonus, it went up to 12.119%!
I have calculated the ROI approximately with medium prices for all tokens when creating this post... So, those numbers are valid if you bought WB and sold BEE tokens at the middle HiveEngine price...
Do you want to sponsor the PH-Pool with your tokens, receive a short SPONSORED segment in this post, and raise awareness about your front-end or dApp? Please let me know in the comment section, or contact me through Discord or Twitter, and we will find the best solution for both parties...
If you want to join the WorkerBee PH-Pool, the only thing that you have to do is to STAKE tokens to YOUR account and DELEGATE your staked WORKERBEE tokens to THIS account (
)! Every week, you will get your portion of mined BEE tokens and BONUS rewards!
.:. DO NOT STAKE TOKENS TO MY ACCOUNT!!! Just DELEGATE! .:.
All payments will be made after publishing this post...
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section!
You can find more about this pool in the initial post here @ph1102/workerbee-p-h-ool-let-s-help-each-other.
Thank you for your time.
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