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Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.

For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I assume you are rotating ip addresses after swapping to cloudflare?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Any news? I'm still seeing empty pages sometimes (db errors I think), s6 wonder if the kiddies are somehow getting through despite cloudflare.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you run a reverse proxy infront? Eg. nginx is pretty performant at dropping unwanted traffic.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thank youโค๏ธโค๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also when will CloudFlare drop lemmy as a 'Nazi' site?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Script Kiddies are definetely some of the saddest people on the internet. If you're gonna be an unethical hacker at all, actually do it. Don't be a sissy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's about skills. Script kiddie can download and run a script written by someone else but that's pretty much it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How does cloudflare work? Do you install the private SSL certificate there and so cloudflare can see all traffic, including passwords, in plain text or is the path from browser through to your server still encrypted?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cloudflare makes the website feel dirty, but it'll protect the site until a better option is found.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many hackers targeting lemmy huh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Script kiddies*

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