George Ure Sites HackedAugust 14, 2006
George Ure
If you're a subscriber to www.peoplenomics.com, or visitor to www.urbansurvival.com, please be patient with my internet service provider. There has been a server hack that has taken down not only my server, but also the server for www.independencejournal.com. Had to happen, sooner or later, though, because we can't have friends doing things like the web bot project up at www.halfpasthuman.com without drawing at least a bit of attention.
Somehow, this doesn't surprise me - and it's one of the reasons that when I set up passwords for the site I insist on having just the email address of the subscriber. In this way, the most a hacker would ever get (like the crowd in control of the DNS server now, by the look of it, is an email address.
Here's a simple reason to have several layers of "personal security" in computing. An email address for simple things, and a more complex 10-12 character letter, number and ASCII character password that rotates, for more complex matters.
I have left a message with my ISP overnight, and I imagine they will change their DNS server around (or the hackers may have gotten into one of the UNIX boxes, but at any rate, they should be able to restore service today - perhaps tomorrow at the latest.
In the meantime, current subscribers should be on the lookout for an email from me with both this week's report and the charts as a .PDF file. |
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