SFWA.Org Currently Under DDoS Attack
Posted on February 6, 2013 Posted by John Scalzi 1 Comment
Reposting this here by way of getting the word out to SFWA members:
SFWA.org has been under a DDoS attack since roughly 10am. We are working to restore the site as quickly as possible.
— SF&FWritersOfAm. (@sfwa) February 7, 2013
For those who don’t know, a DDoS attack basically means someone is hitting our web site with automated frequent requests with the intent of blocking access to it. We’re not speculating on who or why; what we’re focused on is getting the site back up. Our Web folks are fixing it as we speak.
Update: We’re back up.
Per my usual policy re: SFWA-related messages, I’ve turned off comments for this thread.