MALICIOUS, DELIBERATE “INJECTION” ATTACK TEMPORARILY KNOCKS US OFFLINE
With the eyes of the nation on South Carolina’s “First in the South” presidential primary, the Palmetto state’s preeminent political website (that’s us) was rocked by a massive cyber attack.
The malicious incursion – which temporarily knocked us offline on Monday – was a highly sophisticated “injection” attack that bounced Internet Protocol (IP) addresses all over the globe. That’s a far more serious sort of maliciousness than the “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attack that hit us back on election night in 2014.
This website has been a loud, unapologetic and widely-read critic of both the Democratic and “Republican” establishments – so it’s not surprising there are those who wish to silence us.
Who was behind this latest attempt to do so?
That’s a good question. We’re investigating the origin of the attack and hope to have an update on that soon.
In the meantime, huge props to our ambassador of digital dominion – a.k.a. the “CIO” – for working overtime to manage this attack.
And thanks to our readers for their patience …
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I told you, you should have check with Cruz’s tech support. While you were down others were up, must not have been too seismic.
The ghost of Lee Atwater strikes!
“a highly sophisticated “injection” attack”
Would that be a meat injection? I have lobbying money that Cruz can take to deflect such a claim.
Are you sure you paid your hosting bill?
There is a GOP primary happening in SC right now and FitsNews doesn’t have a single advertiser, while asking for them. What does that tell you?
Who needs advertising when you have a “pay to play” business model. Fits has been whoring out his so called political blog to the highest bidder for some time now. Trump is his current paymaster.
Glad you’re back up and running. I hope the “jumping screen” a lot of regulars are complaining about is gone.
Just wait.
I know, idcydm. My number will come up eventually and it will be my turn, again.
No. Mine has jumped several times today – usually in the middle of my trying to compose a reply.
That’s why I went to word, copy and paste.
Sorry to hear that, man. Somehow, I’ve missed that little “pleasure”. It has happened to me before and is annoying as hell!
The strange part is that after you click back to the page you were on, you can hit reply on the same comment you had been working on and the work is still there. Something fishy was up…
Mine vibrates and it feels good.When life hands you lemons,squeeze them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3tvHBawoDA
Make it stop!!
Sounds like somebody needs to. Hopefully while Fits has their top IT peeps in house, they can address this issue for you guys.
Not only is the “jumping screen” not gone, but if I switch to another browser tab to read email, then return to FITSNews, it is on another thread, usually older, not where I was.
Maybe the hacker was a long-suffering victim of this and was trying to put everybody out of their misery.
:-D
First Scalia, then FITS. It is a modern day “Night of the Long Knives”!
Scalia was Romish, but also Roehmish?
Well, I guess I can see some similarities.
I just had a trojan horse virus attack visiting this page from his twitter account. buh bye
Night of the tea spoons…
Plastic?
Sporks…
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Lee Atwater is back to his old tricks. FITS is still infected. I clicked on the link and I got security alert from Kaspersky that malicious software was blocked.
Lulz..just..lulz.
The whole thing is just …humorous.
Bush campaign did it. Face it, they are desperate.
And George is in the state.
“Massive cyber attack” against Fitsnews. That’s about as likely as BT having a bad hair day.
George Bush desperate at that
Still encountering problems with my Internet Explorer browser on this site; picking up a virus every time.
The AOL Shield seems to be immune.
I caught crabs one time from visiting a porn site. My mouse itched for weeks after that visit.
:-(
You gotta watch those PROM sites you old fart. :)
Now, you tell me!
:-)
oops, you typed PORN not PROM, see when you get old your eyesight is the second thing to go.
“Get out that old blue ointment
to the crabs’ disappointment . . . “
I never heard that one but I like it.
Committing it to my memory banks for future use.
:-)
“Get out that old blue ointment
to the crabs’ disappointment
and we’ll go for a tussle in the hay.
“Oh it scratches and it itches
but it kills those sons a’bitches
in the good old fashion way.
(From long ago. Told to me by an classic na’er do well of the old school.)
http://i.imgur.com/xTYYwnC.jpg
There was more!!!! This is great!!!! When I heard the term, “blue ointment”, I always thought they were talking about “Blue Star Ointment”, which can be bought across the counter, today.
Years ago, I read an article that reccommended using “blue ointment” to remove troublesome lead deposits from handgun barrels.
I eventually tried Blue Star and it did seem to help. I attributed it to the “camphor” or like compound that seemed to be a component of the “Blue Star”. Now, in your link, I see a picture of an old jar of what must have been the original compound of “Blue Ointment”. I note that it contains 10% Mercury, according to the label. Of course, in today’s world this would be considered a toxic snd potentially harmful compound. Years ago, I have been told, shooters used to use Mercury to remove leading from handgun barrels. This is likely what made the original “Blue Ointment” good for that purpose.
Wow, the making of an old legend, or just a good hint, comes full circle.
Like I told someone yesterday, the opportunities to learn new (or old) things on this site just never cease.
Thank You!
Ha ha ha! sitting in a hotel room in Tucumcar, NM with my wife one night and posting on Fits News blogger ewe max posted that he was from Tucumcari-I never mentioned it.Same thing happened with another blogger when I posted I was in Myrtle Beach and then informed I was in ‘Drayton’..I was actually in Dayton,Oh .Just booked a flight on Allegiant and Sparklecity brings up Allegiant.Folks your shit is apparently fair game for intimidation purposes.Nice to see somebody is turning the tables on these bastards.
Last time I recall bringing up Allegiant was months ago……..
They did have a 2/week shuttle to Florida from GSP “International” but I don’t know if they still fly out of GSP or not.
You are a paranoid lunatic.
Better call Saul, er, D. Fanin, Esq.!!!!
LMAO!!! I can see pogo’s fake law degree from a mile away!
“Massive” attack? Sic, you overstate your importance and influence.
“…In the meantime, huge props to our ambassador of digital dominion – a.k.a. the “CIO” – for working overtime to manage this attack…
The “ambassador of digital dominion…the CIO” – AKA Tommy, age 13 from across the street…
“There is a GOP primary happening in SC right now and FitsNews doesn’t have a single advertiser, while asking for them. What does that tell you?”
/end of thread
Congrats Hackers! Keep up your good work and tell The Marshall we just love his sweet haircut.
Maybe it was Rubio’s mistress fearful that one day, maybe, just maybe, that long awaited smear piece would be posted here.
Hmm……does Mr. Folks wonder why the P&C seems to have forgotten their “comment section” on its articles? Wonder why..? ….or maybe not…
Because the P&C is second rate newspaper circling the drain? They probably couldn’t afford whatever authentication service they were using, whether it was facebook or disqus–even for free.
Does the entire world think everything is some back room deal, black helicopter conspiracy theory about every stupid thing that occurs?
I do not like a lot of the language on here but I can live with the truth.I do not always agree with you Will but I do respect you most of the time and the other comes from my own biased view that all of us hold at times. I hope there is something you can do about the attack.
Looks like they did it again: Tuesday.
Fits..my router at home gets slammed about once a month (to the point of needing to be rebooted) by servers from China, Russia, Taiwan and many other countries in that vicinity. And the the owners of those servers doing it probably don’t even know that their servers are responsible.It’s not some international attack against me; its an international attack against everyone.
Please…don’t feel so special. Your phone (and everyone else’s) is probably getting port scanned, too.Hell, If your HVAC thermostat or your wireless printer has an IP address on it, its getting port scanned for vulnerabilities (and exploited, if possible), too.
“By one of the candidates.”..lulz. You can only wish you were that important.
Also… You still have that annoying “screen jumping” issue!