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MS. PAC-MAN for IBM-PC. From 1983. Okay, I am really bad at this game... but at least the emulation is working! 😉

#RetroGaming #Booter #FloppyDisk #PCGaming #DOSGaming #Atari #Arcade #PacMan #80s #Emulation #86Box

Sometimes, I just love to dig into really old games. Here's 1983s "Ms. Pac-Man" from Atarisoft. The game came on a double-density, single-sided 5.25inch disk of 160K. But when you tried to look into it from DOS, it just seem completely empty, because it's a "Booter" without a file system. Interestingly, this one doesn't seem to be copy-protected at all.

P.S. Here's the link:
https://archive.org/details/pc_mspacman_kfraw

#RetroGaming #Booter #FloppyDisk #PCGaming #DOSGaming #Atari #Arcade #PacMan #80s

MS. PAC-MAC for IBM-PC, 1983 floppy disk

KryoFlux, looking at a 160K, 40 tracks, single-sided disk.

PC DOS 5 trying to display the disk's content.

It's interesting how the operation #PowerOff regularly dominates the #DDoS timeline for their take down of #booter / #stresser services.

It needs to happen, I agree, and it is great work done by the authorities. But it really leaves an aftertaste, since a couple of weeks later the landscape is back to normal with new services, new domains, same old business model.

#infosec #operationpoweroff

📬 digitalstress.su: Polizei schaltete Webstresser ab
#Webstresser #Booter #brrsecurity #digitalstressnet #digitalstresssu #NCA #PSNI https://sc.tarnkappe.info/f98377

Bonjour à toots,

#Recherche (pas moi, quoi que...) une personne qui saurait réaliser une #image #kernel #debian pour #booter un #a20

Avant dernière étape d'un #projet de réalisation d'un Earth-friendly way to easily upgrade and #fix your own #computer ( #EOMA68 #Computing #Devices )

🙏 A gagner ? Il y a essentiellement de la reconnaissance 💗 et de l'expérience 💪 .

Plus d'infos ici si je peux répondre aux questions, et voici un point d'entrée sur le projet :

https://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2023-November/016574.html

One thing I noticed today is that loads of OSS booters pull from public (often GitHub repo) proxy lists.
If anyone from a suitably empowered law enforcement org is reading this, it'd be most hilarious if you took over some of them and pointed the traffic back at the source...
#InfoSec #DDOS #Booter #Proxy

📬 FBI übernimmt Domains von 13 DDoS-Dienstleistern
#Cyberangriffe #Webstresser #Booter #DDoS #DDosAngriffe #ddosforhireservice #FBI #PowerOFF #Stresser https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/cyberangriff/fbi-uebernimmt-domains-von-13-ddos-dienstleistern-274377.html

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/uk-sets-up-fake-booter-sites-to-muddy-ddos-market/ #U.S.DepartmentofJustice #NationalCrimeAgency #OperationPowerOff #ALittleSunshine #DDoS-for-Hire #ddos-for-hire #WebFraud2.0 #stresser #booter

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market - The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DD... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/uk-sets-up-fake-booter-sites-to-muddy-ddos-market/ #u.s.departmentofjustice #nationalcrimeagency #operationpoweroff #alittlesunshine #ddos-for-hire #webfraud2.0 #stresser #booter

Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals - Thinking of trying a bit of DDoSsing to get a feel for life at the fringes of the Dark Si... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/03/28/cops-use-fake-ddos-services-to-take-aim-at-wannabe-cybercriminals/ #lawℴ #booter #botnet #zombie #ddos #dos #nca

Vous avez planté un QubesOS, plus rien de boote, il reste des solutions:
#Booter sur un live USB
loadkeys fr
sudo lsblk
sudo cryptsetup /dev/<volume3> encrypted
sudo lvs # to check volumes are here
sudo vgchange -ay qubes_dom0
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/root
mount /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root /mnt/root
mount /dev/<volume2> /mnt/root/boot
mount /dev/<voluem1> /mnt/root/boot/efi
cd /mnt/root
mount -t proc /proc proc/
mount -t sysfs /sys sys/
mount --rbind /dev dev/
chroot /mnt/root bash

Most people who operate DDoS-for-hire businesses attempt to hide their true identities and location. Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law. But until recently, their biggest concern wasn’t avoiding capture or shutdown by the feds: It was minimizing harassment from unhappy customers or victims, and insulating themselves against incessant attacks from competing DDoS-for-hire services.

And then there are booter store operators like John Dobbs, a 32-year-old computer science graduate student living in Honolulu, Hawaii. For at least a decade until late last year, Dobbs openly operated IPStresser[.]com, a popular and powerful attack-for-hire service that he registered with the state of Hawaii using his real name and address. Likewise, the domain was registered in Dobbs’s name and hometown in Pennsylvania.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/thinking-of-hiring-or-running-a-booter-service-think-again/

Saved the best quote till the end, from @nixonnixoff :

"“When a booter service claims they don’t share logs, they’re lying because logs are legal leverage for when the booter service operator gets arrested,” Nixon said. “And when they do, you’re going to be the first people they throw under the bus.”

#booter #stresser #ddosforhire #ddos #Dobbs #IPStresser

Capitalism comes for us all sometimes...

Prosecutors charge 6 people for allegedly waging massive DDoS attacks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/prosecutors-charge-6-people-for-allegedly-waging-massive-ddos-attacks/

#DDoS #InfoSec #Booter #Stressor #TechNews

An image of a hooded figure working on a laptop with a skull on it while saying the image "skull and crossbones". To the right of this person, there is a credit card on a fishing hook.

📬 Webstresser unter Beschuss: 6 Anklagen, 48 Domains beschlagnahmt
#Webstresser #Booter #DDoSForHireDienst #DstatCC #IPStressercom #securityteamio #supremesecurityteamcom https://tarnkappe.info/webstresser/webstresser-unter-beschuss-6-anklagen-48-domains-beschlagnahmt-260929.html

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “#booter” or “#stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (#DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services.

The DOJ said the 48 domains it seized helped paying customers launch millions of digital sieges capable of knocking Web sites and even entire network providers offline.

One of the defendants has allegedly been peddling DDoS for more than a decade. John M. Dobbs, 32, of Honolulu, HI is charged with aiding and abetting violations of the CFAA related to the operation of IPStresser[.]com, which he allegedly operated for nearly 13 years until last month. During that time, IPstresser launched approximately 30 million DDoS attacks and garnered more than two million registered users.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/six-charged-in-mass-takedown-of-ddos-for-hire-sites/