We’re B-A-C-K!
Posted by StormWarning on 18 May 2008 at 10:24 am | Tagged as: Cyber-security, Editorial
Death to cyber terrorists! After a few days of dealing with a serious attack on the “Moon servers,” StormWarning’s Counterterrorism and all of Moon’s blogs are back on line. We were down since sometime around 4pm cdt on Thursday, May 16th (I was on travel since May 12 anyway). This blog is hosted on Moon’s own servers. Apparently, the blogs took a rather serious attack of some sort and were rendered inoperable (I only hope that it was random and not something that I wrote that pissed off someone to the point of attacking the servers). We have no idea (yet) of what happened, who or why or whether, in fact, there was such a DoS on the servers. We were on a well known web hosting server but have now migrated to a substantially more secure server (I actually know the company quite well and their approach to security is unique and very secure).
The real surprise is how insecure and vulnerably some host services operate their web space. Afterall, this is “only” a commentary blog. If this were a commercial website, or my company’s website, I would have been more than upset at having it go down for so long.
As for the individual or individuals who took down the site…my attitude toward cyber attacks is not that different from jihadist terrorists. Death to cyber terrorists!
cyber security, Denial of Service
Not to worry Storm, the servers we run host a wide variety of sites besides the blogs. There are something like 37 other sites on it. We feel it was one of the other sites that drew the attention of the hackers. That site was not re-installed along with all the rest. They’ll have to take their stuff somewhere else. In addition, it was probably an oversight on our side for not making sure godaddy was secure, or even concerned with being secure. That shouldn’t be an issue here.
Hi Moon! I’m not really “worried.” Its more like I enjoy writing, “Death to cyber terrorists!”
In my opinion, the cyber-terrorist in this case IS godaddy. A cyber-terrorist is only as successful as the host allows them to be.
The enablers are as bad as the doers.