'We Struggle Not Against Flesh and Blood': Catholic Online, Victim of a Cyber Attack

Catholic Online ^ | 10/26/10 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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Catholic Online experienced what we now know was a deliberate cyber terrorism attack. I simply suffered one of the bad repercussions. This is not the first time Catholic Online has been the victim of this kind of virulent, intentional effort to impede its work. This time, malicious code was deliberately and fraudulently sent into its ad servers by cyber terrorists clearly intent on shutting Catholic Online down.

Catholic Online is organized as a for profit limited liability company. This is intentional. Catholic Online will not be impeded from speaking and defending the truth in the midst of what Pope Benedict XVI rightly called a "Dictatorship of Relativism". A for profit company structure gives us the maximum freedom. This cyber attack this weekend was very serious. Whoever was behind it has tried before without success. I am happy to report that by the grace of God and with the skill of a truly outstanding team in California, they did not succeed this time.

However, the work involved in repairing the damage caused by such a cyber attack is very costly. The perpetrators targeted the ad servers of Catholic Online for two reasons. First, because it is the source of the revenue it takes to run Catholic Online. Catholic Online is run on the income derived from ad sales. Second, because Catholic Online has to rely on Third Party Software to protect those ad servers. Whoever was behind this attack was strategic and sophisticated in their effort and knew this. They also wanted to silence the message and the messenger...

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WE WERE HIT, AND HIT HARD BY CYBER TERRORISTS! Catholic Online experienced a deliberate and sophisticated cyber terrorism attack. We are attacked frequently. However, this time, a malicious code was deliberately and fraudulently sent into the ad servers through third party software by very sophisticated cyber terrorists intent on shutting Catholic Online down. It was not an "internet hack" for fun but cyber terrorism to destroy! The perpetrators targeted the articles on Catholic Online and the operational integrity of the ad servers. They do not like what we are writing.

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A punk with too much time on his hands or a scheme hatched from the seat of Satan himself? Who knows. A lot of this stuff seems to emanate from the former Soviet Bloc countries.