I want to share a communication from the CEO of Intelenet. Intelenet is basically an ISP's ISP. Meaning a large provider of service to many large companies including ours. I'm sharing this to help you understand the resources that have been involved in assuring the recent issues are resolved.
Please understand this attack was not directed to Website Forge or our customers. However the ripple effect of such an attack can cause other equipment within an associated network to become sluggish. So the named security measures will help reduce the chance of an attack affecting the speed of our network connectivity.
Here is an excerpt from an email sent to me today:
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Starting Friday, March 30th, InteleNet experienced a number of very
sophisticated Internet-wide DDOS attacks, including TCP SYN, HTTP flood,
UDP flood, etc., to some of our network infrastructure. The attacks were
directed to our different infrastructure devices such as routers, DNS
server, Mail servers, etc. Also, some of our customers were directly
targeted. As our engineers worked to mitigate and block each attack,
the type, magnitude, and the destination of each new attack changed so
additional countermeasures had to be put in place.
Over the last few days, InteleNet engineers in conjunction with our
network vendors such as Cisco and some of our IPS providers we were able
to block the attacks and start working the in infrastructure changes to
allow better protection of potential vulnerable public services.
InteleNet, its engineering staff, and security consultants have been
working around the clock to rectify these problems and have been able to
stabilize the network. You can be certain that this attack was
immediately escalated to InteleNet?s highest level and that it availed
itself of every possible resource to solve these serious attacks.
In going forward, we have also been working with our security and
network vendors to quickly deploy the latest technology in preventing
DDOS attacks as well as a major upgrade of our network infrastructure
with the latest Cisco equipment. InteleNet is reviewing additional
infrastructure and security solutions that will ensure that any future
attacks do not compromise our network. You will receive additional
communications in the next few weeks on when you can except these major
network upgrades.
On a personal note, I know these issues have had an impact on your
business and I am very sensitive to the nature of that impact. I want
to give you my personal assurance that I, and InteleNet, take these
issues extremely seriously and it is our absolute highest priority to
increase the resilience of our network so issues like this are kept to
an absolute minimum.
Sincerely,
Mark E. Towfiq
President & CEO
InteleNet Communications, Inc.
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Thank You
Shane Merem
www.websiteforge.com