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Continuing Attempts to Thwart FluTrackers

sharon sanders

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
Some of you may have noticed that we were down for about 30 minutes today.

Another denial of service attack.

We are very progressive on the situation and continuously upgrade and address methods to prevent these situations.

Also the attempts to crack the password to our server continue. Everyday.

We are also very proactive on this and we are employing all available methods to prevent any unauthorized entry. To this date none of these attempts have been successful.

I have to wonder why someone would try to take FluTrackers down. Repeated attempts. Systematic. Ongoing.

Is it the fact that we are free to the world?

Is it that we find information and publish it?

What is it?..........Really - I would like to know.

We are monitoring this site 24 hours a day and we will keep it online.

In addition, our backup site is now FluTrackers.org and is fully operational. Please bookmark this site. If we are down for any length of time please go to this site for information and posting. We are in the process of installing a registration procedure for that site.

For me personally, these attacks just make me more determined to stay online and continue to support the effort here. And - if any of the attacks are successful and the site goes completely down, we have backups to this site and we will come back online within hours.
 
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maybe someone has a particularly interesting contribution
but was banned
 
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gsgs said:
maybe someone has a particularly interesting contribution
but was banned
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gsgs, the way I see it, is, if the above was true...first of all, FT's does not ban someone without a very good reason. Second, if this is their response, if the above happened....I don't think we would want someone with these ethics on the site anyway.
 
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We ruined that option when we did not agree with the school policy. And then we disagreed with the policy of depositing sequences into GISAID unless they are already deposited at Genbank. So.....

Que sera, sera.

We are on our own.
 
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I remember when I spent a lot of time at "the other site" several months ago. They had numerous shut-downs and attacks. Since I no longer frequent their site, I'm unsure if those attacks have continued.
 
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We are also very proactive on this and we are employing all available methods to prevent any unauthorized entry. To this date none of these attempts have been successful.
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Sharon,
Whoever the "we" is, I thank them.

Until this person is caught, we won't know the motivation. We all know FT is really big and picked up on Google often; maybe it's just a challenge for this individual to hack FT.

Is there something to be gained by the hacker, other than taking FT offline?

You probably already have this; but in case someone else ever needs it:
http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm#cc
 
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2 points to note:
1. orchestrating DNS attacks and continually modifying the method of attack to bypass obstacles takes a reaonable degree of technical savvy.
2. Information control (i.e the flow and content of it) has become synonymous with politics - of companies, of governments, and of large interest groups. Any of these, globally, could seek to restrict access to the information posted here for domestic reasons that may be specifc to them. The more money or power or influence at stake the more the desire to control market sensitive information - so could be any organisation or individual or authority anywhere.

The only thing to do is keep doing what you are doing, and hope that organisations that find FT content and observation helpful might volounteer to assist in helping track down who is behind this and help in getting them to stop or increase site defences.
 
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Missouriwatcher - Some new sites experience a lot of "down time" as they adjust to traffic levels. This is fairly common.

We are experiencing a planned and systematic program designed to take FT offline. The DOS attacks are frequent and timed. There is at least 1 attempt per day to crack the password to the server. They are using ghost ips from all over the world.

It looks like a computer program activated to attack us repeatedly.
 
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maybe other sites are targeted by the same program

find some keywords characteristic to the attacks and search the web
 
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You would have thought that by now, whoever it is has got the message that we are not going anywhere. Work with us, not against us :)
 
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I am not counting on any financial help.

Look at this recent report about the internet and this pandemic (Appendix 9A). While we were the first in the world to publicly expose the developing problem, I do not see us listed anywhere in this report.

ProMED is a great resource, but in this case we posted about this event at least 6 days earlier.

I can only conclude that we are locked out of the system.
 
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Maybe we are a whole NEW system ! :D You help so many people that you will never know about...ordinary wee people like me who would never, ever, have this kind of knowledge without you! :tiphat::applause:
 
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Howdy one and all....on this matter let me begin by saying I was also personally hack-attacked, and my computer was wiped and all my work and research of the past 3 yrs is gone .......so I KNOW we are lucky to have this site and the work done is important, but as a poor man, I no longer can do much to help. I'll have to replace my computer, and otherwise am now using the 30 mins. free/ day at the local library to stay abreast of the changes here.


Best wishes, and Happy 2010,
joseph
 
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I'm in the "mixin and her gang don't know" - category

they always want to make it looking like "we" would support
their censorship policy, which I don't.
 
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Roehl_JC said:
Howdy one and all....on this matter let me begin by saying I was also personally hack-attacked, and my computer was wiped and all my work and research of the past 3 yrs is gone .......so I KNOW we are lucky to have this site and the work done is important, but as a poor man, I no longer can do much to help. I'll have to replace my computer, and otherwise am now using the 30 mins. free/ day at the local library to stay abreast of the changes here.


Best wishes, and Happy 2010,
joseph
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Oouchy !!
 
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gsgs said:
I'm in the "mixin and her gang don't know" - category

they always want to make it looking like "we" would support
their censorship policy, which I don't.
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Finally joined my gang, eh? :applause:

The "we" depends on what we are talking about. I think everyone agrees that hacking is a bad thing. Well, except for the hackers, maybe.

Poor Joseph...that's horrible to lose all your work.
 
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Joseph - All the best to you.

Mixin - I did not know that you and Gsgs were gang members!
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Roehl_JC said:
Howdy one and all....on this matter let me begin by saying I was also personally hack-attacked, and my computer was wiped and all my work and research of the past 3 yrs is gone .......so I KNOW we are lucky to have this site and the work done is important, but as a poor man, I no longer can do much to help. I'll have to replace my computer, and otherwise am now using the 30 mins. free/ day at the local library to stay abreast of the changes here.


Best wishes, and Happy 2010,
joseph
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Best wished to you also Roehl. I hope you will be back soon.

I can say that computer viruses are all over the vaccine availability links. Yesterday, there was one that was posted several times concerning an high school providing vaccine shots, always different links.

Since the beginning of the vaccine availability threads, I can not count how many warnings I received from my computer.
 
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I have used this site to clean up my computers one had a blue screen the managed to walk me thru the process. the link below has a lot of current info on active hackers.

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=43373
Pandemic of the botnets 2009

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FYI... Please do NOT visit the sites mentioned in the article!
 
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sharon sanders said:
Mixin - I did not know that you and Gsgs were gang members!
surpris_8.gif
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Mixin: AKA Headless Veronica Ricci, gang leader in Facebook's mindless time-wasting, popular game, Mafia Wars. Gs hasn't (yet ;) ) officially joined my gang.
 
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