A sad end

Started by hazelnut, Dec 24 2008 12:57 PM

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#1 OFFLINE hazelnut

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 12:57 PM

Frequently suffering Denial Of Service attacks because of the good work they did fighting online crime, CastleCops is no more.

http://www.castlecops.com/

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#2 OFFLINE Humpty

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 01:08 PM

Castle Cops was a great site and I think Returnil had a support thread over there? :unsure:

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#3 OFFLINE YoKenny

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 01:08 PM

This is a bad trend as hpHost forum suffered a similar attack:

http://www.malwareby...?showtopic=7289 <== Membership required to see this I believe

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#4 OFFLINE 1984

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 03:04 PM

Wow, I can't believe that they are gone.....I used to frequent there as a lurker quite often....that's really too bad..

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#5 OFFLINE Stocker360

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 01:35 AM

Wow, some kind of christmas surprise?

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#6 OFFLINE TonyKlein

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 09:45 AM

hazelnut, on Dec 24 2008, 01:57 PM, said:

Frequently suffering Denial Of Service attacks because of the good work they did fighting online crime, CastleCops is no more.

It wasn't so much because of that that, but (at least on the surface) because Paul started working for Microsoft, Robin and Paul had their 3rd child and reportedly no third party showed up willing to run the site up to the standards and conditions asked for.

Regrettable, but many of us did kind of see it coming...

I'm just happy that we found a new home for the databases before the site went 'pouf!' with little or no notice.

All in all I think all this could have been handled a whole lot better! :rolleyes:

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#7 OFFLINE Andavari

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 09:51 AM

TonyKlein, on Dec 25 2008, 03:45 AM, said:

I'm just happy that we found a new home

Looks good, and I've bookmarked it.

Thanks for sharing the link!

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#8 OFFLINE TonyKlein

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 10:00 AM

Andavari, on Dec 25 2008, 10:51 AM, said:

Looks good, and I've bookmarked it.

Thanks for sharing the link!

You're very welcome, Andavari.

It was Javacool who, last August, came forward with his generous offer to host the Lists, and they're being updated throughout the day

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