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May 3, 2006

Blogging Hell - Latest Events in the Blog Wars

by Ferdinand T Cat

Michelle Malkin reports that Aaron's CC came back after the latest hack, but it is gone again.

In the meantime, Six Apart is back. They are officially reporting that service is degraded, but a spot check revealed that most of the Typepad blogs are available again. It turns out this was another deliberate attack, though there is no word on who was behind it.

This is very bad news. It will become necessary for servers to start defending themselves against these atttacks, and there is always a cost to that kind of security.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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Even the independent sites are under attack. Our site has been up and down a lot lately due to this kind of attack, which struck us as insane because we "should be" too small yet to attract much attention. And yes, it's about to cost us our free hosting and IT services because we're taking up enough of our friends' time that they're on the verge of having to charge us for it (though they don't want to) because they've had to reprogram new firewall code just to keep these momos out. Still, here's to hoping the rest of the bloggers take our attitude that it's worth a little cost to keep freedom of speech alive in the face of terrorism.


Posted by: The Random Yak at May 3, 2006 3:00 PM

I should have realized how stupid it was to host my blog on the same host that runs Instapundit, LGF and Evangelical Outpost. Thank God I learned a long time ago to take database backups seriously so I didn't lose anything :-D


Posted by: MikeT at May 3, 2006 9:53 PM

Several people have reported that it was that some other outfit was being hit with DoSS and changed their hostname to point at their TypePad blog. The actual attacks were likely run by spammers, as part of an ongoing business war.

http://q.queso.com/archives/001917


Posted by: scott at May 4, 2006 10:41 PM

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