Getting attacked by someone.

[Lizard]

My playstation has had dodgy connection since saturday. Just now trying to fix it my router said I had recieved a denile of service attack directed at it and apparently it switched on at 10.30 today when I was at college so it could not have done. Any way to find who is doing this and advice on how to tighten the security up? I have as much network security as possible and have done for many years although it is a wireless connection to the router.

Or should I report it directly to the police or my ISP and let them find who is doing it?
BTW the router blocked it as soon as it found it.
Ok I know that sounds stupid I will tell police anyway I just want to find who is doing this.
HELP.

 

[wfooshee]

The router should have logged an IP as the source of the DOS attack, and that's all you're going to know about it. Chances are that the IP is the location of an infected computer that's running a bit of malware code as part of the attack. If the router did not log it permanently, i.e. the log has scrolled off without being saved somewhere, then you have no ammunition with which to pursue anyone.

The attack is probably not directed at you, it's just being thrown out there at a series of addresses, and it got around to you.

When you say it switched on at 10:30, do you mean you keep your router powered down, or do you mean it made an on-demand type connection (like DSL service might use?) If it came on for an on-demand then you possibly have a wireless hitchhiker and should consider changing your security keys. OTOH, an on-demand connection could have been initiated by anything on your LAN simply checking for updates or something, and thus would be nothing to worry about.

 

[Lizard]

The router should have logged an IP as the source of the DOS attack, and that's all you're going to know about it. Chances are that the IP is the location of an infected computer that's running a bit of malware code as part of the attack. If the router did not log it permanently, i.e. the log has scrolled off without being saved somewhere, then you have no ammunition with which to pursue anyone.

The attack is probably not directed at you, it's just being thrown out there at a series of addresses, and it got around to you.

When you say it switched on at 10:30, do you mean you keep your router powered down, or do you mean it made an on-demand type connection (like DSL service might use?) If it came on for an on-demand then you possibly have a wireless hitchhiker and should consider changing your security keys. OTOH, an on-demand connection could have been initiated by anything on your LAN simply checking for updates or something, and thus would be nothing to worry about.

No I mean my router logged my PS3 as connecting at 10.30 when I was at college and no one was here. And I havent been robbed or anything.

 

[Shoogar]

Maybe someone broke to your room to play video games?

Keep an eye on the activity. If it continues to happen at strange times, maybe you should invest in a small camera that you can use to record what happens in your room throughout the day. If nobody turns up and it's still registering things happening, then change your router password.

Not sure on what to do after that.

 

[thechosenwonton]

No I mean my router logged my PS3 as connecting at 10.30 when I was at college and no one was here. And I havent been robbed or anything.

DoS attack wouldn't cause anything like this, and for the PS3 to turn on... I've never heard of an exploit such as this. If your router already blocked the IP, then you're fine - if it didn't, most routers have the capability to block IP's and it will just drop any packets from that IP (or range of IP's).

Do you have a cat or animal that might have stepped on one of your controllers? Because as it stands, this just sounds like a weird glitch. It's also possible that the time on your router was off (perhaps due to the DoS attack, it was unable to sync to an NTP server), and the time it's showing for your PS3 connecting was just wrong. I'd check that. Additionally, if you have your router connected to a UPS and you lost power to the building, the PS3 could have turned back on when the power came back.

And don't bother with making a police report, they'll have no idea where to even go with this. My work get's DoS'd all the time and we have safeguards in place to not be effected, but never even think about calling the police. The worst we'll do is call the ISP and let them know, and they usually squash it pretty quickly (bandwidth is money, so it's in their best interest to do so).

Cheers.

 

[Ibonibo]

How could your PS3 beeing turned on?'

Has your router bluetooth?

I don't see why someone would bother with that. It would be an aweful lot of work to get the PS3 on via a router.


Restart your router for a new Ip. Block the suspicious Ip and your good.

 

[RacecarBMW]

Check if you have remote play on, sometimes my PS3 turns on randomly if that is enabled.