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At first look - WOW - we have had a huge December!
So far - 11,302,561 hits from people and an additional 2,367,199 hits from search engine bots - WOW
But Wait... the page view number is off....9,222,050 page views from people...which is more than 71 pages for each visit from the viewers @ 69,608 unique ips.
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Over 71 pages for the average viewer at each visit??? No way.
We have had a continuing denial of service attack since December 7. I began receiving email notes about excess server load from the server company. Since the traffic was direct links into the site from various ips, it did not appear to be a denial of service attack at first. In fact, the server company suggested after a week that we install the latest vbulletin to better handle our huge traffic. On Friday afternoon, December 20, the server company called me about the continuing excess load.
On Saturday I began to investigate the origin of the traffic to see what topics on FluTrackers were attracting so much attention.
The first thing I saw was the number of hits. Unreal.
Then I saw that China was the country of origin for the excess traffic. And then I discovered all of the traffic was to our registration form. In the past few months about 50+ fake people have signed up to join each day. Then all of a sudden this stopped a couple of weeks ago. Now I know why....they are not bothering to sign up. They have realized that they can not get in.
So now they are flooding the site registration form with direct links. This must be generated by computer. Look at the various ips and the number of pages viewed before I banned them:
This is just the top 12. There are more. This amount of volume can only be generated by a computer program.
Overall pages viewed from China are 7,947,773. !!! Almost all in only 2 weeks.
So why would someone try to overload the site from December 7 through December 21 when I began to ban these ips?
What is the possible motive?
I spent most of Saturday and Sunday taking action to make sure these and other ips can not access the server. Even with this continuous attack we never went down. We have installed various methodologies to prevent down time.
So, whoever you are - you will never take us down. We are not just a site.
We are a phenomenon. People Helping Other People. This Can Not Be Stopped.
US media companies hit by 'Chinese hackers'
Wall Street Journal and New York Times newspapers report that both their computer systems were infiltrated.
Last Modified: 01 Feb 2013 02:22
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"Evidence shows that infiltration efforts target the monitoring of the Journal's coverage of China and are not an attempt to gain commercial advantage or to misappropriate customer information," Paula Keve said.
U.S. looking at action against China cyberattacks Updated: Feb 01, 2013 4:03 PM CST
LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
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Richard Bejtlich, the chief security officer at Mandiant, the firm hired by the Times to investigate the cyberattack, said the breach is consistent with what he routinely sees China-based hacking groups do. But, he said it had a personal aspect to it that became apparent: The hackers got into 53 computers but largely looked at the emails of the reporters working on a particular story. The newspaper's investigation delved into how the relatives and family of Premier Wen Jiabao built a fortune worth over $2 billion.
"We're starting to see more cases where there is a personal element," Bejtlich said, adding that it gives companies another factor to consider. "It may not just be the institution, but, is there some aspect of your company that would cause someone on the other side to take personal interest in you?"
Journalists are popular targets, particularly in efforts to determine what information reporters have and who may be talking to them.
The Chinese foreign and defense ministries called the Times' allegations baseless, and the Defense Ministry denied any involvement by the military.
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"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear." -Nelson Mandela
The hackers gave up trying to get into the server. For years they tried but they never were able to guess the correct user name or password. This is why they now have a computer program to send many requests to look at the registration form. You can change anything you want in your profile at FT, but at this time it appears they have given up trying to access the server - plus we have many safeguards installed. I think most of the H5N1 hits are real people and entities. It remains one of the biggest natural threats to mankind.
As to twitter who was hacked yesterday and 250,000 accounts were accessed, we were not one of those. I changed our password anyway. So we are not the focus of that set of hackers. There is speculation it was China.
Re: FluTrackers 2012 Total Year Statistics - Preliminary
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
By DAVID E. SANGER, DAVID BARBOZA and NICOLE PERLROTH
Published: February 18, 2013 177 Comments
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People?s Liberation Army base for China?s growing corps of cyberwarriors.
Most of the ips engaging in a continuous DOS attack against us have originated in Putian, Fujian province. I have managed to cut the traffic to the server down to 1,060,311 page views so far in February - down from 9,714,466 in December.
We are experiencing a continuing DOS attack and are slow this afternoon. I am working with the server company after receiving this email from them:
Date: Mar 19, 2013 3:40 PM
IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
.... the cpu has been maxed out for more than a 6 hour period......You should check the server to see why the load is so high and take steps to lower the load......
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.) Never forget Excalibur.
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