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Computer Cops Under Ddos Attack!

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Post #1
FYI…!!!

- http://www.computercops.us/forums/
(Intermittent message)
"We are experiencing severe DDoS attacks. The web server may flap once in a while. Simply try refreshing…"
- Be Advised!: Outages Experienced Today: Computer Cops
Paul writes "We experienced some down time today to what appears to have been a SYN Flood against our server directly targetting Nuke Cops. Our host has indicated this as such and has provided a list of IP addresses which were banned. "
- http://www.computercops.us/article-5060-thread-0-.html-1
Posted on Monday, 03 May 2004 @ 12:13:28 EDT by Paul
"…Yesterday and today has seen an enormous DDoS against our web server. In fact, we've spiked up to 60Mbps during the attack, and it continues right now. Our webhost…is working with us in these matters…"
Post #2
Thanks for this post AplusWebMaster - just what I was looking for. Could not get in over there yesterday or today :(
Post #3
FYI…update:

Continued DDoS Woes
- http://www.computercops.us/index.php
Posted by Paul on Tuesday, 04 May 2004 @ 21:00:49 EDT
"We're working on getting more servers and dedicated circuits, but we're finding out this is starting to cost beyond our reach. Both Computer Cops and Nuke Cops are growing so large so fast, that the script kiddies running DDoS attacks on us and the popularity brought on by our registered members is taking us into realms that cost a lot to stay alive.
I'm basically putting out a notice to everyone, that unless I can get some sort of serious funding to continue operating then these may be the final days of the sites being in operation. The bad guys are hitting us the only way they can…in the wallet. It'd break my heart to see this place go away because growth has gone far beyond the funding at hand.
Our host told us the attack initiated on Nuke Cops, switched to Computer Cops, and went back to Nuke Cops. As of noon today, we have no additional information on the attacks. However currently, Nuke Cops has been taken offline and will be assigned a new IP in the hopes that attacks can be curbed for the short term. Nuke Cops recently released an application called Fortress with a pre-released version of Ban On Demand that protects PHP-Nuke websites from all SQL injections and bans attacks immediately. It appears Fortress is such a success, that both sites have been targetted – at least, that is what timing appears to be."