Of course not TC, we believe you.

You are being nice to those Internet Terrorists.
I don't post much, but I am here daily. Miss a day and I feel uninformed. Sure hope all gets resolved favorably.

I didnt witness it but dude that really sucks. Why would someone attack our peaceful board? but im a pirate so it works out

*twitch*

They tried to take away my happy place...... I was going through withdrawals... I had to put my calming music on.

*deep breath*
*twitch*

Go get 'em SO!

There was a three-prong attack of some type.
A DDoS attack (handled by our provider's automated detection system, but there was a brief outage)
A SYN Flood (handled by our server's firewall)
And an overwhelming auotmated log-in script (also handled by our server's firewall)

There contrinues to be attacks (several per second) but our kung fu is strong.

The provider of the attacking server (it is a server, not a hijacked personal computer) has been notified and an investigation has been initiated.

Hopefully we are kept updated SO. Thank you for being so candid with us

Everyone who ran all virus checks and system checks in reflex like a paranoid fool raise your hand..

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just me.. huh..

whatever it was obviously did nothing significant so they are quite obviously weak at causing disruption... and why choose a Sunday, not exactly peak time..

from now on, I will refer to this person as "special Ed"

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Skeptic, do you want me to use my magic mojo powers to burnify them and like then use my psychokinetic powers to make their heads pop?

I'll do it for free.

Gosh, it all sounds pretty serious. Can we know more as news become available?

Now, there is a solution for the ATS DT's I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), but I think ATSchat is on a seperate server since I have just gone there when the board/world goes awry, and it is usually still up.

So pop this link into your favorites, the usual residents will be there to help you through it.

www.abovetopsecret.com...


[edit on 1/22/2006 by Relentless]

This is terrible.

Sad truth is, that it was probably some 12 year old punk sitting in his basement.

If ATS goes down I'm offering counselling in the chat room till rather late tonight.

No, I don't think it was a twelve year old. Unfortunately, SO probably won't tell us who it was, or where they're located, for fear of lone wolf members seeking retribution in kind.

SO is smart like that.

I have a couple of guesses as to who perpetrated the dirty deed. There is that recent, ongoing drama with SotT and the other involving the DIA and that SERPO shenanigan...

While I'd love to know..there's a lot of sense in keeping that information out of circulation. It tends to exacerbate problems, in my experience. Anyway, I'm glad things are back to normal.

Luckily for ATS members, the ATS team employs only the finest ninjas!

A friend of mine told me her favorite site experienced a recent DDoS attack (about a week ago), and it really crippled them. I doubt they were as well prepared to fight it and filter out the garbage as this site, though. She said it hasn't been quite the same since.

Great job keeping it as stable as you have so far, SO.

I was one of the people WAGD asked Or at least I think I was :p. Strange indeed, but we have some of the best in securit here, IMHO. A lot better equipped to deal with this kind of thing than many other sites.

Thanks SO, for fighting this off and for keeping us updated.

--Kit.

It just happened for a minuit again.

Reading SO's post mad me feel good inside.

Im sure he can handle it.(Whew)

So no one on this thread (very suprised) said the words, "government" "conspiracy" or "aliens" yet? Wow. I thought someone would suspect them of doing this.

I think its government related.

Thank you SO, for taking care of our little community.

Ha!! You read my mind!!

And finding this thread just after reading the thread about the feds going after Google: www.abovetopsecret.com...
....I really did think of that!! Could it be connected??

Great job SO (and all) !! Sic 'em tiger(s)!!