I think its very well possible he couldve used a botnet. There are many bots that can be rented for some cash, or even used one of the more common bot programs to acquire his own. Nowadays its really hard to DoS nodes on a network without using a DDoS with a bot. Simply because all the old methods dont work to. The only other effective way to remotely DoS someone(without access) is to exploit a DoS vulnerability in a service. Since that is WAY cooler(still not very cool because its the cowards 'win') he wouldve bragged his ass off about that instead of bragging about his lame DDoS he seemed so proud of.

Just some of my opinions about the situation.

May he get your Ip through the cmd "netstat" command or he uses a Network sniffer like Wiresshark

DOS Attacks:

To understand how the most DOS attack work it is important to undeerstand how the network protocols work

1) http://securityoverride.com/ar.....ticle_id=7

2) Syn Flooding attack

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood

3) Ping of deatch (does not work on most OS)

 http://infinityexists.com/vide.....-of-death/

4)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....gmentation

 http://tools.cisco.com/securit.....lertId=306

I do not think that he has an bot net which will do the DDOS.

So I was playing a game of Dota (a WC3 mod) and some dude started raging and then he started kicking people off. He was not the host. I asked him how he was doing it and he said DDOS. So I have a basic understanding of it, but my question isn't about that. My question is, how was he able to grab everyones IP? I'm guessing that he must have been able to get each specific persons IP and then he targeted them. So 1) How is one able to get players IPs while NOT being host? 2) What are some ways to protect yourself against this? I know it's rather difficult to protect against a DDOS attack, especially if there are thousands of zombies, but how can I block my IP during a gaming session in Windows XP? Unfortunately, Ubuntu and Backtrack don't help me much in the gaming department, great for everything else though. Thanks for your time in advance. 

3) Also, what is the general "theory" to tracing DDOS attacks. I know they can be very difficult because of the zombie computers, especially if several thousands are infected with other tools. However, what would be the overall procedure to trace such things.

Though a virtual hacking enviroment would be useful.

you'll be going through pen drives pretty quick.

Solid state drives aren't the best thing to use for temp files (and ram is temp on crack).

reading isn't such a bitch, but writing / reading / deleting CONSTANTLY to your pen drive will shorten its life drastically.

This is why some people (if not most people)  disable Swap when using an OS from a pen drive or SSD.

your theory , the internet isnt necessary, but its sure as hell convient to have

hmm.. can the firmware of a psp support some linux functions??

thanks!

Theoretically with a softmod you can hack a PSP's wifi capabilities to support packet injection and then you would need to get to run some packet injection code and cracking software. I dont have any first hand experiance with that stuff(though ive been thinking about looking into it), id recommend trying to see if you can do a complete softmode to make it run linux. Prob couldnt play games but itd be badass.

help..

i wanna learn..

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