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Big closet was down for me for over an hour and now that it is back up, it looks like it was hacked extremly well by a bunch of idiots. My sincere thanks go to them for causing Erin and her people all this work and heartache.

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Yeah... stupid fuckers...

Yeah... stupid fuckers... Can't they find someone else to annoy?
It seems like there is one attack after another.

Thank you for all your great work,
Beyogi

I'm still having problems

Angharad's picture

with screen width and a few other things. People who do such things should be separated from their gonads and made to eat them.

Angharad

Angharad

Hate to tell you this

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The screen width problem seems to have been caused by corrupt HTML in the latest Bike. I fixed. When you copied and pasted the header, you left out the < from the very beginning.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Bad HTML Corrupts?

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...and absolutely bad HTML corrupts absolutely!


Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Not at all

They should be left attached to their gonads and made to eat them.

But only after...

...being forced to cook them. Raw meat they've probably had too much of already.

Site down for a bit

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Piper and I have been working on and off on the upgrade. As part of the upgrade process, we put a test site up on the same server as BC. Today, the test site seems to have gotten attacked though it may have just been a clumsy reaper and not a malicious attack. We're still trying to figure out what happened. But the test site got corrupted and slowed the server down so much that it seemed the site was actually down. It wasn't really, just slow, slow, slow.

All is fine now but this may happen again while we are testing.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Attacks

Erin, silly question, I know, but if these are malicious, any idea who or why?

Mostly places in Europe and Asia

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I'm considering banning whole countries in the firewall.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Now I'm scared... Knowing

Now I'm scared... Knowing the fact that germany is the third biggest malware slingshot...

Please don't do nation bans.

Only t-dialin. Then there's

Only t-dialin. Then there's wanadoo in france. (that's what it was the last time I really looked)


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Only t-dialin

Only t-dialin is a good one...
Deutsche Telekom is the provider of about 45% of the DSL and cable internet connections in Germany.
Unfortunately it seems very easy for some hundreds or thousands of "bad guys" to hide within their about 12 milion users.

Martina

All I know about them is

All I know about them is that they don't give a crap. I had a brute force attack for two weeks from one of their IP's; reported with lots of documentation. They didn't do _dick_. Not even a _reply_. As long as people in Germany pay them, they don't give a crap what goes on outside their borders.
I didn't know they were the main provider, however.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

That's the prooblem...

That's the prooblem... They're the old state monopolist. Who doesn't care for crap, takes Telekom as a provider. Problem is they still employ a bunch of ex-civil servants and those people have no idea how the internet works. And what can they do anyway? They can't exactly pull the plug on their customers if they're part of a botnet.
They could probably tell them that they have malware on their computers, but that would require work...

Actually, they could have

Actually, they could have just port filtered the customer. Block ssh and ftp. Then it's more on the customers end for the customer to call and find out they're being used. Mind you, a lot of my experience with t-dialin is _prior_ to heavy botnets. These were actual people.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

I am on a site that had some

I am on a site that had some seriously bad ddos attacks a few years ago not sure exactly how they stopped it but one thing I do know is they added a pincode to the login thus adding an extra layer of security.

Yule

Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p

I don't know the specifics

I don't know the specifics of the attacks here, but friends that run other sites are seeing similar things from time to time. In most cases, it's spam comment related. There are botnets that search the net for forums or other places to post comments with links back to the sites they try to advertise. As annoying as that is if done well and not foiled, some are poorly written enough that they'll end up trying to do this hundreds of times a second from many nodes, even if they're blocked from succeeding, which overwhelms and brings down sites.

That's it

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That's pretty much what happens and did happen today.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

There are a couple of rogue

There are a couple of rogue search engines I've had problems with, if that helps. The spider goes nuts when it hits a dynamically created content site, and just pounds the crap out of it. There are some settings to reduce that sort of load down. (well, there were in what I was working with)


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Hey Erin, I'm in the UK!

Please don't ban me!

A number of your loyal fans (e.g. Angharad, to name but three) are in the UK. Whether or not we want to be in Europe is another matter.

Susie