<div dir="ltr">Morning<div><br></div><div>News today of a massive new ddos (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack">distributed denial of service attack</a>) hitting the US and Europe:</div><div><br>
</div><div><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/02/11/0349259/ddos-larger-than-the-spamhaus-attack-strikes-us-and-europe">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/02/11/0349259/ddos-larger-than-the-spamhaus-attack-strikes-us-and-europe</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/372033,worlds-largest-ddos-strikes-us-europe.aspx">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/372033,worlds-largest-ddos-strikes-us-europe.aspx</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-013A">http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-013A</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://openntpproject.org/">http://openntpproject.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>As the 'ancient curse' apocryphally attributed to the Chinese goes: "May you live in interesting times".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Best</div><div>-- <br clear="all"><div>Technical Operations Manager<br>Community Media Association<br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br>
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