Was FlyerTalk down yesterday, Friday the 13th?
Nov 14, 2009, 2:19 pm
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Hunky dory, but bracketed "Nov 14, 09 until Nov 16, 09 "
Not sure when Stephanie's announcement that things should be hunky dory went up, but the email alerting isn't hooked up yet. Also note that she is bracketing the problem as lasting until the 16th...
Nov 14, 2009, 3:28 pm
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Nov 14, 2009, 5:16 pm
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There's a Flyertalk Twitter page, but it only had one update yesterday evening.
I'm leaning towards the attack/hack too -- during a brief time I could get to the homepage, there was a link to a warez site on it.
I'm leaning towards the attack/hack too -- during a brief time I could get to the homepage, there was a link to a warez site on it.
Nov 14, 2009, 5:58 pm
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Thanks. ^ I missed it at the top.
Nov 14, 2009, 6:12 pm
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Nov 14, 2009, 6:46 pm
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Has anyone either received a PM, or sent one that you know reached the recipient, in the interim?
And thanks, sbm12. Are you hearing anything else?
And thanks, sbm12. Are you hearing anything else?
Nov 14, 2009, 7:28 pm
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Nov 14, 2009, 8:02 pm
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Um, do we know for certain it was a cyber-attack as opposed to homegrown IBB incompetence?
It's not users who access FT, etc. for free that IBB has to answer to; it's advertisers. It's just inexcusable for the whole IBB empire to disappear off the face of the earth for most of a business day.
It's not users who access FT, etc. for free that IBB has to answer to; it's advertisers. It's just inexcusable for the whole IBB empire to disappear off the face of the earth for most of a business day.
Personally, I would hope that they went along with it (in cooperation with law enforcement) long enough to try to find out who was controlling the bots. Blocking the IP addresses in this situation simply blocks PC's that are already hijacked. You have to go upstream to their ISP's & see where the command & control traffic for the exploited computers is coming from.
Most if not all of the advertisers are pay per click advertisers such as AdSense. They'll miss the boards a lot less than IB will miss the income.
Nov 14, 2009, 9:35 pm
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Good! Its doesn't happening again in the future if they are have any cyber attacks again in the future. So that's why FT is temporarily down all day long. Let me know if they have any cause another error problems. If you should have to do installed AVG 9 but, it is very good anti-virus control onto your computer. You must to protected with emails or any problems the website is another viruses.
Nov 15, 2009, 2:52 am
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Nov 15, 2009, 3:41 am
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many of us in Australia are still having to break in via hidden proxy servers but no-one seems to care as there has been no response to any threads pointing out the problem.
Perhaps the Southern Hemisphere will just disappear?
Perhaps the Southern Hemisphere will just disappear?
Nov 15, 2009, 6:22 am
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I still can not access flyertalk normally. I have to use the online proxy server to access it in China. But I asked my friend in Canada and he can access it without problem.
Is this issue location related?
Is this issue location related?
Nov 15, 2009, 6:34 am
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I'd hazard a guess that IB has implemented some sort of location-based blocking to nullify the DOS/hacking attempts. Either those who are having issues share IP space with the evildoers or IB has implemented their blocking methods very sloppily.
You can believe whichever one you want...
You can believe whichever one you want...
Nov 15, 2009, 1:12 pm
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I was in Japan until about 10 hours ago, and FT was unavailable to me for the entire period of outage, right up until I shut down to board my flight. I'm at LAX now, and its working, so I suspect some non-US sites still aren't getting through.