A round of applause!

[Hazysky]

great to have the forum back up 

[Shepherd]

Nice one mk 1

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Is it true that Mr D would like the proposed medical mirage at Wynyard to be called St. Simian's? 

[mk1]

Is it true that Mr D would like the proposed medical mirage at Wynyard to be called St. Simian's? 

Naw..........I heard he doesn't give a monkeys!

[The Great Dictator]

How was the site brought down ?

[Stevef]

The site was brought down by a DDOS (Distributed Denial Of  Service) attack. Which was launched by a Botnet (lots of hacked or "Zombie" computers under the control of a single hacker). These computers can be anywhere in the world. We identified computers from the UK, Asia, Brazil, Indonesia, USA and Vietnam etc.

These Botnet's tend to run by organised crime groups and are hired out for sending Spam, launching DDOS attacks and other illegal activities.

[The Great Dictator]

Was it organised locally by our enemies ?

[Stevef]

Not sure if speculation is a good idea at the moment, but these things do leave a money trail. We will be gathering all the information we have to pass on to the authorities.

[Lord Elpus]

SteveF is being very careful, however, the short list of suspects behind the attack is a very short one.

[The Great Dictator]

Lets hope the same scoundrels don't bring down the council website ?

[andyn]

well done Danny a job well done hope it all gose well from now on (great to have the site back) 

[Lord Elpus]

Well done for getting the site back up and running yet again, HtH must have really pis*ed some people off for the attacks to be so frequent.