As many of you have seen, and may be wondering why we were down this weekend. Penny Auction Watch℠ was the victim of malicious cybercrime – a DDoS attack.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the lingo, DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. Without getting into too many details, basically what happened is the perpetrator forcefully attacked us which forced our ISP to take the site down.
DDoS defined:
“A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.”-Wikipedia
Though the possibilities are endless as to who could have initiated the attack, it’s likely that it could have been a party who is a competitor to this site, an exposed penny auction site, or anyone else that holds a grudge against this site for any other reason. Many in both groups have been on a campaign to discredit this site, in an effort to carry out their agendas and/or further steal from consumers.
Authorities have been notified and there is an investigation underway, hopefully the perpetrators will be brought to justice in a short time.
In the past, penny auction sites have also been victims of DDoS attacks.
Thank you for bearing with us in this time, we’re glad to be back!
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