{"id":4554,"date":"2012-10-24T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2012-10-24T07:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:41:15","slug":"christian-voice-website-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/christian-voice-website-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Voice Website Cyber Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How a DDOS attack works – The attacker recruits thousands of slave computers to send simultaneous requests to the target website.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, the Christian Voice website was off-line most of the day after coming under a massive cyber-attack.\u00a0 We apologise to our members and readers but there was nothing we could do.<\/p>\n

Our web host reported at 8:22 am: ‘A few moments ago the Christian Voice website began to come under a massive DDOS attack<\/a><\/strong> which quickly crippled the server.<\/p>\n

‘You’ve probably upset some people!\u00a0 We see these from time to time – it’s usually outspoken Christians who get targetted.<\/p>\n

‘I’ve had to temporarily suspend it, as the attackers had sufficient resources to bring down the whole shared-hosting machine – if you were paying for dedicated hosting, i.e. only your website on a single machine belonging to you, you’d still be\u00a0brought down.<\/p>\n

‘The scale of the attack was the largest we’ve ever seen. When people have enough resources, they can bring Amazon down.<\/p>\n

‘Sadly, launching powerful attacks is very cheap these days. You can go onto the Internet’s “underground” and hire the computing capacity of thousands of virus infected computers for a few minutes for a few dollars, and that’s enough to bring down a few servers.’<\/p>\n

In the Police and Justice Act 2006<\/a><\/strong>, the United Kingdom specifically outlawed denial-of-service attacks and set a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.\u00a0 But the attack was from faked IP addresses which cannot be traced.<\/p>\n

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:<\/p>\n

‘This attack on our website is encouraging.\u00a0 I don’t know whether it was Secularirists or Islamists we have upset beyond measure, but clearly someone out there thinks Christian Voice is doing such a great job we have to be disrupted.\u00a0 So by the grace of God we’ll stand up for Jesus Christ and for righteousness all the more.’<\/p>\n

Find out how to join Christian Voice and stand up for the King of kings (clicking on the link below does not commit you to join)<\/strong>
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Yesterday, the Christian Voice website was off-line most of the day after coming under a massive cyber-attack.\u00a0 We apologise to our members and readers but there was nothing we could do. Our web host reported at 8:22 am: ‘A few moments ago the Christian Voice website began to come under a massive DDOS attack which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,11,86],"tags":[15,588,589,590,54,43],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-to-preach","category-homosexuality-trans","category-secularism","tag-christian-voice","tag-cyber-attack","tag-ddos","tag-ddos-attack","tag-persecution-of-christians","tag-stephen-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t