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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30254
    #1

    Bot attack 23 Dec

    I hear from Mark that the forum was hit by a large bot attack in the early hours of this morning, system overload by 7,500 bots attempting to register at the same time. Very topically, it appears to have emanated from Russia (perhaps showing special seasonal interest in the Famous FoR3 Christmas Game?). Mark managed a fix for that attack, but says we may expect more.

    Hope this caused no outage while anyone was online: if so, that was the cause.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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  • eighthobstruction
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 6432
    #2
    ....thank you Mark for all your work...happy christmas

    ....Life Time Immunity for former Matriarchs....
    bong ching

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22115
      #3
      The education that this forum gives - I now know what a ‘bot’ is other than the one I have fallen on a few times, sometimes painfully!

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30254
        #4
        Looking again: there were two sequences, one of which appears to have been from Russia, the second, now I check, from the US. Quite what the significance of this is, I do not know Andrew also alerted.

        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
        The education that this forum gives - I now know what a ‘bot’ is other than the one I have fallen on a few times, sometimes painfully!
        RO RO RO …
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • richardfinegold
          Full Member
          • Sep 2012
          • 7657
          #5
          What would be a motivation for such an attack? Is it totally random? What could anyone gain by disrupting the posts of a handful of Classical Music Listeners?

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          • Pulcinella
            Host
            • Feb 2014
            • 10897
            #6
            Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
            What would be a motivation for such an attack? Is it totally random? What could anyone gain by disrupting the posts of a handful of Classical Music Listeners?
            Just to show that they can?

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            • DracoM
              Host
              • Mar 2007
              • 12962
              #7
              Alert work by off-scene mighties. Thx.

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              • cloughie
                Full Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 22115
                #8
                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                Looking again: there were two sequences, one of which appears to have been from Russia, the second, now I check, from the US. Quite what the significance of this is, I do not know Andrew also alerted.



                RO RO RO …
                Perhaps they’re trying to be the first to answer Rath’s AA P! Trying to jump the Q!
                Last edited by cloughie; 23-12-20, 11:46.

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30254
                  #9
                  Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
                  What would be a motivation for such an attack? Is it totally random? What could anyone gain by disrupting the posts of a handful of Classical Music Listeners?
                  I don't suppose whoever produced the necessary algorithm to locate this particular site was too concerned about who we were. Mark mentioned spamming, but I don't really buy that either.

                  I think we show up as a fairly busy site - considering how many (i.e. few) of us are active. That attracts attention. Mark first emailed me at 3.15am with news of the 'Russian' attack. Poor old Mark - if they try to register and can't, he gets bombarded with error messages Who knows? Our own usage may show up as identical to that of MI6 and they're trying to disrupt its activity
                  It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                  • oddoneout
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2015
                    • 9148
                    #10
                    Well for3 is obviously a cover for nefarious activities, after all, seriously, who really discusses a classical music radio station...

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22115
                      #11
                      Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                      Well for3 is obviously a cover for nefarious activities, after all, seriously, who really discusses a classical music radio station...
                      Less of us these days!

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                      • Globaltruth
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 4287
                        #12
                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        Our own usage may show up as identical to that of MI6 and they're trying to disrupt its activity
                        er. no.
                        ECHELON - Wikipedia
                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

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