Who f**ked Boards.ie

Started by thebigfella, January 20, 2016, 11:41:08 AM

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thebigfella

I reckon the mods well and truly p1ssed someone off this time. My money on the gobsh1tes on the golf forum :P

This place will be fine as Ziggy isn't as heavy handed on the modding.

Beffs

Third day of outage now. That's some down time.

armaghniac

Gaaboard next in the firing line?
If at first you don't succeed, then goto Plan B

laoislad

Quote from: armaghniac on January 20, 2016, 08:20:48 PM
Gaaboard next in the firing line?
They'll be have to get past ziggysego first.
When you think you're fucked you're only about 40% fucked.

trueblue1234

[quoteOn the evening of Sunday 17th January 2016 a DDoS attack began to target Boards.ie. A DDoS attack is a Distributed Denial of Service attack – it's sole aim is to take the targeted site off-line. This is done by directing an enormous amount of traffic to the site simultaneously from multiple devices with the aim of overloading it. Boards.ie and many other large websites encounter these attacks from time to time and usually weather them easily. However, this attack was larger and more sustained than any we have encountered before and it unfortunately caused the site to go down on Monday afternoon, 18th January 2016.

From the time the attack occurred, Boards.ie worked intensively to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and to get the site back online. The site went live again on Wednesday afternoon, 20th January 2016.

New and improved security measures are being put in place to reduce the risk of this happening to the site again in the future. For operational reasons, we will not be divulging exactly what those measures are.

We'd like to send out a huge thank you to all of those who offered help, advice, supportive and funny messages via Facebook, Twitter and email – it's really appreciated that people were so patient. And of course the biggest thank you goes to the tech team who got us back up and running under immense pressure.
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Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit

foxcommander

You have to wonder if people have nothing better to do

That said while wasting time on this board
Every second of the day there's a Democrat telling a lie

Beffs

Yesterday morning, Boards was down, Twitter was down, the National Lottery computers were down and the official Kerry forum that I visit from time to time, were all down. At the same time. Coincidence? Alien invasion? A sign of the impending Apocalypse?  :o