I EXPECT that many visitors to ‘Cyprus Property News’ will have noticed that the website was unreliable for several days earlier in the month. My hosting provider thought it was probably due to a DOS or a dDDOS attack that flooded my CPN server with traffic, which eventually resulted in it crashing.
No personal data was stolen or compromised by the attacker(s).
Cyprus Property News is working normally again.
But to avoid any possibility of personal data being stolen by a more sophisticated attack at some future date I decided to cancel my weekly newsletter and deleted my subscriber database.
Cyprus Property News is now hosted on a more robust server and stringent checks have been implemented to identify and deal with any possible future attack.
In addition, I am using a secure protocol (https) to protect against what are known as man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Congratulations on getting the Cyprus Property News up and running again.Keep up the good work.
Ed: Thanks Eileen.
Well done for not losing data and recovering.
Clearly, someone doesn’t want you to continue publishing what you do.
Probably means you’re doing something right!
(Or you were the subject of a random hack).
Somehow – that’s less likely (I suspect).
Nigel,
As I mentioned you had been nuked
Joe
Ed: It took quite a while to sort out the mess and get everything working as it should.