Answer 1

Hackers sometimes do it, so don't leave any tool/means off the table, I promise most people aren't having meetings every month on the standards of being considered a hacker. You do what you need to do for given situations. More importantly, it's safe to say they know how to do more than script kiddie stuff, but know how to do that also.

As for tricking people with IP logger links, if you're in a position to do that, you're also in a position to easily infect them in various other way that are a lot more fun than DDoS'ing them. For example, I could trick a bunch of people on this website by sending them a link to a fake PDF on "advanced programming." Obviously, I wouldn't do that, but it isn't hard to trick people, and that's an important skill of a hacker.

PS - I doubt anyone that takes situations personally and decides to DDoS people are going to read this and be like "Nooooo! I thought I was a hacker. I guess I should do something else. Gee golly!" :)

Answer 2

can I ask whats DDOS means*(a novice who doesn't know that much..)*

Answer 3

@Cyber Joy: DDOS (or "Distributed Denial of Service") is a cyber attack where a network or server is overwhelmed with so many requests that it is unable to respond to all or any legitimate requests.

See Wikipedia for more information:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Answer 4

DDoS's are boring and ultimately ineffective (businesses just write the expense off their taxes) but your risk is admins sleeping​ at the wheel.

Someone flooded an API I worked on; there was no apparent reason but I had to manage it.

Hidden in the multitude of packets was a singlet; an anomalous packet that resolved to some guy named Jesus. No part of the API crafted packets this way.

Religious comment, crafted joke, coincidental psychology, ...? I took it as a reminder to pay attention. You can say DDoS's are just noise, but if you get one: act as if there may be a signal.

Answer 5

require some skill... u need to get people ip and and know the commands to ddos'es

Answer 6

I saw a Low Orbit Ion Cannon attack semi-recently. When I told my team they nearly choked (LOIC is trivially ignorable).

The more insidious thing about DDoS is complacency / distraction and hidden agendas. China's supposed "human rights" attack on two GitHub projects (a little ways back) got lots of censorship news, but when I analyzed it network and server intelligence (not necessarily at GitHub; they're just a fat pipe) seemed more likely goals.

Nobody responded with a gag order, so that vague-ish observation seems ok.

Answer 7

btw u right too

Answer 8

100% right Netkos

Answer 9

DDoS can require skill depending on how you do it.

Anyone can watch a YouTube video and download some things, but not all people can actually come up with a variation themselves and independently make software capable of DDoSing.

Answer 10

but This is a noob attack .. pro hackers dont do that