[webcast-l] News today of a new ddos attack - Canstream currently unaffected

[Bill Best]

Morning

News today of a massive new ddos (distributed denial of service
attack<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack>)
hitting the US and Europe:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/02/11/0349259/ddos-larger-than-the-spamhaus-attack-strikes-us-and-europe

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/372033,worlds-largest-ddos-strikes-us-europe.aspx

Canstream services are currently unaffected and we will be working with our
service provider today to ensure that we are fully protected against this
new exploit.

For stations and projects that host their own servers and websites, we
advise that you read the advisories and take affirmative action with your
Internet Service Provider:

http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-013A

http://openntpproject.org/

As the 'ancient curse' apocryphally attributed to the Chinese goes: "May
you live in interesting times".

Best regards

Bill Best
-- 
Technical Operations Manager
Community Media Association
http://www.commedia.org.uk/
http://twitter.com/community_media
http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation

Canstream Internet Radio & Video
http://www.canstream.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/canstream
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