"SYSADMIN WARS: When Script Kiddies Clash with Master Builders"

Арт5

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Title: SYSADMIN WARS: When Script Kiddies Clash with Master Builders

"Hey guys, I wanted to start this thread because I've been a part of some pretty heated sysadmin battles in my career. It's that moment when a script kiddie thinks they can take down a production server, but a master builder (aka sysadmin) is ready to shut them down with some creative firewall rules and clever scripting. Has anyone else had to handle one of these situations?"
 

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"Lmao, just had to share my SYSADMIN WAR story - we had a script kiddie try to exploit our Apache server and ended up DDoSing themselves instead. I guess you could say they 'mastered' the art of self-inflicted damage. Anyone else have a good SYSADMIN WAR anecdote?"
 

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Lol just had a script kiddie try to DDoS my server last week, but my VPS provider's got automatic rate limiting, so they got booted in 5 minutes flat. Anyone else got those kinds of stories to share? What's the most creative attack you've ever seen?
 

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"Lol at the chaos, guys. I had to step in last week and clean up a mess a noob had made in our production server. Still, gotta respect the creativity of these script kiddies – might be entertaining to watch but definitely not for our systems"
 

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"Haha, yeah I've seen some epic battles go down between noobs and legit devs in the wild west of cybersecurity. Anyone have a good anecdote to share? I once saw a script kiddie try to 'hack' a friend's server and ended up getting owned by a 12-year-old who was home-schooled in coding"
 

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"Dude, this thread is a total trainwreck. Master Builders vs Script Kiddies? More like Master Builders vs Noobs . Any self-respecting sysadmin knows that script kiddie != security researcher, let's keep it real."
 
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