DDoS attacks

[Chris Allingham]

Over the last few months, and as recently as this morning, the forum has been hit by a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in which many computers inundate our servers with malicious traffic that overwhelms the servers, denying normal traffic from legitimate forum visitors.

Our internet service provider does a good job of identifying these events in real time and dealing with them, but in doing so you may experience moments of slow forum performance.

Just wanted to let you know what’s going on and thank you in advance for your understanding.

Best,
Chris

 

[Bruce]

Thanks for the heads up Chris.

 

[Arun L.]

Thanks. I always like how you inform us about site related stuff.

 

[ChuckO]

I remember the first ddos, it was September 1996, a year & a month after Window's 95 was released. Cisco thought they were unhackable, and that ddos took Cisco down big time. It's one of the easiest hacks, and still very successful nearly 30 years later

 

[Steve Hoch]

I've been having trouble accessing and using the forum myself for about a week now. Today seems much better so I guess that explains it.

 

[JohnTak]

Thanks, keep up the good work. It’s sad that people don’t put their talent to better use.

 

[Mark Foreman]

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Thanks for being the diligent communicator that you are Chris!
Wishing you a merry Christmas and blessed New Year!