“Another Round in Progress”Attack on Blogopshere Host, Part II

Blogbat ^ | 01/09/2005 | Blogbat

[blogbat]

Hosting Matters has “confirmed attack” for second time since yesterday.

All Hosting Matters client sites are down presently.

To follow updates from HM staff, visit this link:

http://www.hmdnsgroup.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11054

[blogbat]

Time for the reflux redux...

[sevry]

Michelle Malkin's site, Little Green Footballs 'weblog', etc. All server-not-found.

The DU-types? The Dem Party itself? I wonder who did it?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Powerline has been having some problems, as well.

[blogbat]

Maybe the same munchkins that hacked the Protest Warrior web site back in August:

http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=Blogbat&tab=weblogs&uid=124469318

But who knows. I do know I am beginning to grow weary of these antics.

[blogbat]

Looks like HM may be getting wise to the ways of the dark side:

"we managed to trace the attacker back to what looks to be the actual origination point. The current attack has been blocked. If we see another round, I have requested that the NOC simply nullroute the IP address that is the target of the attack. Should this happen, we will re-IP all sites on that IP except the target site. If it comes to that, we will naturally post an update to that effect."

In otherwords, HM says they are back, but so far I haven't been able to get to any of the blogs.