Hackergate part five - PLEASE READ

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi all,

A further continuation of this thread and the original thread here

FAQ page here

Please do keep an eye, ask us any questions and we will post updates as we get them.

Oh yes the 88 year old with an incontinence pad in his pocket.

Glad your back ...I've not being able to procrastinate ....actually had to do things....I'm not happy and neither are
DP - I've been cleaning ...means I will now get twitchy about mess ...and go round saying things like 'we just have to keep on top of it' - even worse I've been talking to him ...
DCs - for above and also I've shown an interest in their school and home work...
Poor cat - I actually got round to giving it a worming tablet ...
Even the spiders are furious ...all those months making webs and I destroyed them in seconds (and I may have hoovered a small spider up by accident - sorry!)
Don't ever do that to me again ...

I was half way up a Welsh mountain at a festival over the weekend thinking "I wonder what MN would make of all this non parenting parenting" and I had no-one to ask about that or, indeed, how often one should change the display bedroom bedding.

Thanks Aramynta - deleting history/cookies etc has made it a lot smoother for me

StephanieBeacham it was what someone suggested we call Gransnet over at Gransnet .

@Kickedinthetits

Update from Justine on the technical thread.

Here's a link

Hoorah!

I got back in, tried to post, but it just greyed out the boxes and then sat on its haunches saying "where's my chicken?" (figuratively speaking), so I wandered off for 20 minutes, came back and I got this scary page instead

Thanks Kate, got your message OK and stopped panicking now !

oh I can't post the pic, it's on the other device!

Thanks TTL sounds about right!

Talking of emoticons, I think we should have that one waving a white flag. It could be a recognised symbol on AIBU to tell everyone the OP accepts SIBU and to stop kicking.

So what happened this time MNHQ?

Our FAQ page is here with updates.

Justine has said on the other thread:

Yesterday evening we were hit by another denial of service attack which meant we offline until this morning; as soon as we got back up we were attacked again. This attack was double the size of the previous one and was distributed across many servers but we have no reason to believe that any security breaches occurred, the intention was to take the site offline rather than to hack into it.

We are contracting external DDoS protection providers to help deal with future issues. Many thanks for your understanding - apologies again for the interruption to normal service.

The police are continuing their investigation.

So what happened this time MNHQ?

"Today 13:59 JustineMumsnet

Hello again,
Here's the latest update on what's occurred.

Yesterday evening we were hit by another denial of service attack which meant we offline until this morning; as soon as we got back up we were attacked again. This attack was double the size of the previous one and was distributed across many servers but we have no reason to believe that any security breaches occurred, the intention was to take the site offline rather than to hack into it.

We are contracting external DDoS protection providers to help deal with future issues. Many thanks for your understanding - apologies again for the interruption to normal service.

The police are continuing their investigation.

[even more gin]"

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2452113-More-about-the-Technical-side-of-the-attacks-on-Mumsnet?pg=5&order=

DDoS again, Hacker.

There's going to be quite a population boom in 9 months' time, isn't there?

Just read the update. Hope it's all sorted.

Sounds like someone (or some persons) really has it is for MN though.

What about what happened on Twitter?

Can i ask if anyone in the know on police matters knows or can guess why its taking so long to find him? Not being facetious honestly.

Hes made hoax calls I thought that was something they could trace fairly quickly these days.

I've had to amuse, AMUSE my child!!! It involved Lego and everyfing!

Still, sounds a lot less scary than t'other forum!!

Can i ask if anyone in the know on police matters knows or can guess why its taking so long to find him? Not being facetious honestly.

I'm guessing he is overseas which complicates things in itself. Plus it is very easy to hide online.

Hes made hoax calls I thought that was something they could trace fairly quickly these days.

Cheap unregistered PAYG? Throwaway skype account? Or super retro and use a public telephone box.

(Not police)

what do you mean about twitter, NobleGiraffe>?

There's going to be quite a population boom in 9 months' time, isn't there?

I only talked to him.

Thanks Fine I didnt think it through properly

On Twitter last night the hacker account tweeted a rude comment about a MNetter who had posted a supportive comment to the @mumsnettowers account. He said that he had been through her personal details on Twitter and knew her address. Clearly a threat given the swatting attacks.

The hacker account was deleted from Twitter shortly afterwards.

People should be aware that the tweets to MNHQ are being read with possible sinister intent.