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Old 11-16-09 | 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by miamijim
It was a planned cyber attack against IB (Internet Brands), the owner of BikeForums. I think all IB sites were down.
I think it was an attack against BF as the IB homepage, and every other forum I tried linked on it except BF worked.
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Old 11-16-09 | 01:31 AM
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Yep, it's nice to see the site back up. On a positive note, my wife and I finally got around to painting our kitchen.
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Old 11-16-09 | 07:48 AM
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I couldn't get on again this morning. Same DOS issue?
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Old 11-16-09 | 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Ziemas
I think it was an attack against BF as the IB homepage, and every other forum I tried linked on it except BF worked.
corvetteforum was down at the same time bikeforums was down. The info I posted was from the adminstrator of the corvettefroum. Someone went after IB.
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Old 11-16-09 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by miamijim
corvetteforum was down at the same time bikeforums was down. The info I posted was from the adminstrator of the corvettefroum. Someone went after IB.
Oddly it must have only effected some IB sites then as I checked the home page and five or six links on it during the outage.
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Old 11-16-09 | 11:11 AM
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Old 11-16-09 | 11:23 AM
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I am glad to see the site back up. I guess this little incident just proves cravenmorehead's post last week about spending too much time here.


I said that? Silly me...I didn't realize what the withdrawl effects were

I wonder if "HorseTopia" was affected....sorry i was looking through a list of other IB sites and that one made me laugh.

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