[sac-forum] Re: SAC Website?
- From: Wayne Westlake <24launch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:38:48 -0700
Don't worry, GoDaddy isn't being hacked but there are reports it's
undergoing a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack by the loser group
Anonymous. A DDOS attack uses a botnot of thousands of hacked computers
(all those folks who *still* don't believe in using antivirus programs!) to
flood a particular "target" with repeated requests - as if all the owners
of those computers are trying to pull up and continually click-click-click
through web pages on sites hosted by GoDaddy. The result is the target
site appearing extremely slow or even unreachable by legitimate surfers.
My company has our websites hosted at GoDaddy and we were notified that the
attack may slow or make our sites unreachable. I haven't noticed any
issues but others at my company have noticed slowness. The SAC website
works fine for me currently.
Wayne
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Bob Christ <bchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just saw a news flash that GoDaddy was hacked big time. If the SAC site
> is hosted by GoDaddy, this is probably the cause. If you refresh your
> browser AJ, my guess is your archived page will be deleted and you'll see
> that which others are seeing when trying to access the SAC Website - nadda.
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:38 PM, AJ Crayon wrote:
>
> Darrell, the site works for me - at least the main web page. Although it
> has August 31 as next meeting. Perhaps you are typing with the wrong
> fingers or clicking the mouse with wrong hand?
>
> AJ Crayon
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
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