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Entries from November 2007

Food for thought from a chain letter

November 25th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Let’s say you know this guy who has something of a history: A couple of people who were on record of having made fun of him or talked bad about him all came to an early end. One of them was gunned by an assassin who fired six shots. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? What kind […]

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Tags: religion

Our site got hit by a Denial-of-Service attack

November 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments

From November 9 to November 19 two of our domains were unter attack by cyber-criminals. Due to a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS) involving thousands of remote controlled zombie computers directed from a secret control centre, some of our sites were inaccessible for several days.
First we received an automated warning email from our webhost, which […]

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Tags: Computers · botnets