Website Downtime - Network Attack
Earlier today, the datacenter that our servers live in was the victim of an attack that took down the connectivity for a period of time. The type of attack and those responsible for it are unknown at this time but we are assured that the network engineers are in place to protect the center and all seems back to normal at this time.
Too much time on someone's hands, somewhere!
Wayne Sagar
There is a PS here.. for those of you who have computers on the Internet and do NOT have a firewall active on that machine... ZONE ALARM FREE FIREWALL Particularly, if you are on a broadband connection, your machine can be used in this sort of attack against a datacenter or a particular machine. This is how it works, the attackers "hack" your home machine without your knowledge, place a small program on it that sits there inactive until these attacks begin. Then you become a "soldier" in the battle against the host they are attacking...
PLEASE, in this day and age, ALL computers, whether they be a dialup or a broadband need to be protected by SOME firewall or other.. there are others, we find that the ZONE LABS product works well and we encourage you to use, at least, the free version. We also encourage you to purchase the very inexpensive pro version, support those who are dedicated to Internet security!!
Too much time on someone's hands, somewhere!
Wayne Sagar
There is a PS here.. for those of you who have computers on the Internet and do NOT have a firewall active on that machine... ZONE ALARM FREE FIREWALL Particularly, if you are on a broadband connection, your machine can be used in this sort of attack against a datacenter or a particular machine. This is how it works, the attackers "hack" your home machine without your knowledge, place a small program on it that sits there inactive until these attacks begin. Then you become a "soldier" in the battle against the host they are attacking...
PLEASE, in this day and age, ALL computers, whether they be a dialup or a broadband need to be protected by SOME firewall or other.. there are others, we find that the ZONE LABS product works well and we encourage you to use, at least, the free version. We also encourage you to purchase the very inexpensive pro version, support those who are dedicated to Internet security!!
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