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Well that was fun. I have spent far too much time today restoring my site from an attack by a hacker. I am pleased to see my security protocols worked and shut down access to the webserver before much damage could be done. My network security guru i... [Read More]

Tracked on July 14, 2005 10:32 PM

Hmmm need more proof of the craven left's intolerance of dissenting voices...they worship diversity in everything but free opinion.

Have any of the more left-leaning blogs been hit? PolSpy (while it does have both left and right wing contributors) tends to lean right and was recently hacked, and obviously Colbert's Comments leans right. I wonder if other Blogging Tories will be hit. Are these politically motivated hacks or just easy targets?

Free Dominion is a Canadian conservative chat site that was hacked twice by the same larval Bolshy terds that hit Protest Warrior. It was constantly assaulted by every moonbat, militant fudge packer and commie termite on the net The vacant left is cowardly, unitellectual and love vandalism....The internet's relative freedom and anonymity gives them the opportunity to act out fantasies about being hit and run revolutionaries ...sort of laterday self styled Che Guevaras...except they do so from the relative safety of electronic anonymity. Cowardice, maliciousness and antiintellectualism..these are the traits and siren call of the sociopaths that join the couch potato legions of leftist net warriors.

When causgt and held to account for their property damage, they whine and wimper as we'd expect from revolutionaries who are too chicken to risk their hides for principles.....I cite the recent indictment of this Hammond larva that was hacking Protest Warrior and running a credit fraud with their member list...I read his pathetic pleas for help and I want to gag. I guess my contempt for cowardice has alway made me feel this way about the fringe left.

Okay you techies out there - what are the best tools for defence against this kind of action?

C'mon guys, don't be ridiculous. What a person's politics are has really little with their criminality (except in extreme circumstances maybe...)

The people who would hack into a site for whatever reason, political or otherwise - are to be condemned for that reason - not the politics they believe in.

Put another way, I'm just trying to preserve the "unitellectual" vitality of the Tory sphere. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.

Peter - I don't really care what a person's motivations are; what I mostly wanted to know was, "Am I more likely to be a target than some other random site?"

Linda - I think the best tool for defence against hackers is a geek who knows what he's doing. :) I love my geek!

I asked my husband earlier what his advice was: good firewall software, intrusion detection software, and keeping your security patches up to date. Don't run any extra services like an ftp server if you don't really need it.

Are you running your own server, or is your site being hosted by a company? If so, they might have tech support that can help make sure you're safe.

Thanks Tamara -- have most of that done but will check with 'geek' friend to be sure!

Linda: Follow the penguin...it will keep out the script-kiddies. Set-up a LAMP server.

Government computer systems struck by intruders

OTTAWA - CTV News has learned Canada's ultra-secret spy agency recently detected what the Communications Security Establishment says were: "a series of sophisticated intrusions into the federal government's computer systems." (CTV)
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