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Brautigan clarifies attacks on exchange; explains AnCapEx outage
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Written by Xavier Mohr
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
By Xavier Mohr, CEO
SLReports.net
In a post at the Ancapistan Capital Exchange website last night, exchange chairman IntLibber Brautigan clarified the most recent outage of ancapex.net.
"There was a brief service outage at our datacenter for a number of their customers," explained Brautigan. "Service is back to normal."
Brautigan also referenced what he claims was a DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attack against the AnCapEx web server.
According to Wikipedia , a DDoS attack occurs when multiple compromised systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods. Such methods may include the use of malware or trojans to target a particular IP address.
Brautigan has also stated that two separate avatars attempted, unsuccessfully, to access the exchange via pirated ATMs, not realizing that administrator pre-approval was required before an ATM could access the system.
"Neither of these attempts were successful," said Brautigan. "However it was revealed that the second avatars owner hacked, or attempted to hack, the account of a BNT official, on Oct 30th, the same day as the pirate ATM incident. At least two other avatars are under investigation along with a number of IP addresses."
Brautigan claims to have seized the portfolios of the known attackers, recovering over 1.8 million shares of Brautigan & Tuck Holdings (ACE: BNT) stock. According to Brautigan, "... most of [the stock] was purchased at low price by the individuals as a result of the September griefing of BNT in its estates and on the SLCapex forum."
Aside from a lot of downtime, no financial or loss has been reported by the Ancapistan Capital Exchange.
"The legitimate investors in BNT do not deserve to have their investments manipulated via griefing and hacking attempts," Brautigan stated. "Anyone caught attempting to manipulate stock prices thusly will lose their ill gotten gains. Crime does not pay on ACE."
Stay tuned to SLReports.net for more information.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 November 2007 )
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