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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on December 19, 2014.
eNewsletter Subject: Denial of Service Attack: Success!
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Yesterday about 1:00 pm, CatholicCulture.org was subjected to a distributed denial of service attack. This means that many different computers were pointed at our website and programmed to bombard us with so many page requests that it was impossible for the site to function.
It's not a security breach or an intrusion, but it makes it impossible for anyone else to use the site which is under attack.
To evade this attack, we had to move our website to a new internet address. At the same time, we signed up with a cloud based service which, for a significant monthly fee, will filter traffic and thwart future attacks of this type. Of course this increases our costs....
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