Well Mr Manderson maybe our ideas about experts seam to be at opposite ends of the spectrum. If this happened to any of my sites/servers I sure would not think I’m a professional. I would be lucky if I still had a job.

Everybody gets hacked. Everybody. I mean, look at Sony’s playstation network. Down for what, almost a month? That’s a hack. This is some script kiddie bot network that just owned your box(s).

Amen. But read this (from WEAR 3):

Don Manderson/Escambia School District: “We’re proactive. We have a group of web technology experts and network service engineers who are constantly doing the do diligence as far as research is concerned and deploying all the things that you would expect a large website would deploy to protect itself. “

As William said, a bot net can do this with no human interaction what so ever. On the Internet, everybody is local. Everybody is a target.

On one of my mail servers, I have the subcontinent of Europe and Asia blocked do to constant spam drops and port scans.

I could post some logs showing that my web server is bombarded with attempted attacks all day/everyday. It just the nature of the Internet. That’s why this should be really embarrassing to their IT staff. Preventing this kind of hack is easy.

That’s just, like— Kah-RAYzee, dude!

I hope these “notorious no-good malcontents” can be persuaded to use their skills & abilities FOR GOOD.