PinoyDen, PinoyTechBlog, Symbianize and YugaTech hit by DDoS attacks!

Yesterday, some of the famous forums and blogs in the Philippines are currently down and experiencing distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack). According to the blog post of Rofus DelaCruz, this attack on forums and blogs was declared by PhLuzon Anonimos and requested by Anon Butan Ding. Rofus DelaCruz also said that PinoyDen, PinoyTechBlog, Symbianize and even YugaTech are among the websites that has been attacked this week. More details after the jump.

"This is a very large attack that is why wala tayong magawa since mahal po ang mga Anti-DDoS Appliances or Anti-DDoS services. Pero rest assured that I am doing everything I can to restore the website. Sa ngayun po aagaayos na po kami ng temporary server at sana ay kayanin nya yung ganun kalaking traffic."
- PinoyDen

"sorry guys got hacked again... it's getting worse but will try to have it fixed asap"
- PinoyTechBlog

"the one that did this to our HOME is just Stupid. i don't know what is he trying to prove fordoing such things.... what he is doing is just plain STUPIDITY..... anung mapapala mo sa paghack ng websites tulad ng PD at SYMB??.. magyayabang? what a non-sense act......"
- Symbianize

"we're moving to a new server so some ISPs might not see the new DNS"
- YugaTech

Update:
(10/14/12 12:58PM) Anon PH just released a statement regarding to this attack.

Greetings SYMBIANIZE and Pinoy Den

We , FamilyPride are not attacking your website.. We'll be helping you to trace the person / Groups that attack your website.

Expect the unexpect

FamilyPride | Philippine Cyber Army
~manila

(10/14/12 3:23PM) Another statement from Anon PH.

Good Afternoon Guys , We found out , those who are suspects or involved in DDOSiNG the " www[dot]symbianize[dot]com "..

sa #OpSymbianize
Eh ito ang Description sa #Ops niLa

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This Operation declared by PhLuzon Anonimos
This Operation requested by Anon Butan Ding
You Can Request To Us Anytime Anywhere
Just Join Us on Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/groups/philippine.anonymous/ and Create a New Event There

We will Attack at Exactly 8:00 AM Tomorrow October 14 2012 to
November 2 2012 9:00 PM
Site To Attack: www.symbianize.com
Operation Flooder: http://deface.eu5.org/opsymbianize.html

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..idinamay din niLa o ginamit ang pangalan ng "xL3gion " at " Anonymous Philippines " ang Anonymous Philippines ay nakaFOCUS cLa " TRO at CCL " ..

wLa din VALiD REASON .. sa #OpSymbianize ..

BESiDES ... SYMBiANiZE .. iS VERY HELPFUL COMMUNiTY .. FORUM SiTE ... SO ? BAKiT NiLA iDDOS -.- HAHA !

HINDI PO LARUAN ANG " DDOS TOOLS " AT MAGDDOS NALANG BASTA BASTA .. -.- PERO KUNG TRiP NiU MAGDDOS EDi GO .. PERO WAG KAU MANGDADAMAY NG iBA ..AT GAGAMiTiN ANG PANGALAN NG iBA ! (._ . )

~Pnq Pride | Family Pride | Black House

(10/14/12 5:00PM) YugaTech (www.yugatech.com) is now online!

(10/14/12 9:15PM) PinoyDen (www.pinoyden.com.ph) is now online!

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What is a DoS attack or DDoS attack?
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the efforts of one or more people to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.

One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. Such attacks usually lead to a server overload. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.