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[enaph]

Same happens with Apple’s Private Relay enabled.

 

[Jack]

Same happens with Apple’s Private Relay enabled.

We had a rather large DDOS attack on the server and I had to take some actions to stop it, this is why you had that issue. Everything should work ok now. Sorry for this.

 

[oldschool]

We had a rather large DDOS attack on the server and I had to take some actions to stop it, this is why you had that issue. Everything should work ok now. Sorry for this.

Seems fine now. They picked the wrong target. Maybe some unhappy ex-member? Some repeat offender?

 

[Jack]

Seems fine now. They picked the wrong target. Maybe some unhappy ex-member? Some repeat offender?

It was pretty powerful.. We had a similar attack two years ago.. I don't know who did this..it can be anyone. I'll continue to monitor the server.

 

[Brahman]

Imho We need a dedicated Android/iOS app.

 

[cartaphilus]

Seems fine now. They picked the wrong target. Maybe some unhappy ex-member? Some repeat offender?

Probably Webroot employee who didn't like all the wonderful things we said about them and the result of the test. /Sarcasm

But yeah I don't blame you for taking extra security measures. After all you lead by example. And this is a security site.

I have left dslreports over a decade ago; since the time they had their hack and exposed everyone's passwords and emails. The passwords were being stored in plain text! Hahaha. And I've been a member on that site since 1999.

 

[brambedkar59]

Had same issues on Brave Android. Now it's working fine.

 

[Shadowra]

Same issue with Safari and Adguard for iOS... Just to let you know, around 4 AM (French time), MalwareTips didn't load or loaded very slowly. At first, I thought my Fiber was having issues, I tried on 5G and it was the same... I wouldn't have imagined that MT was the target of a DDoS attack... Don't you have an anti-DDoS system @Jack ?

 

[ForgottenSeer 97327]

Same here with Firefox on Android with uBlockOrigin

 

[Jack]

Don't you have an anti-DDoS system @Jack ?

Yes, we are using Cloudflare but it was a powerful attack.

Same here with Firefox on Android with uBlockOrigin

Everything is working fine now, right?

 

[upnorth]

Had same issues on Brave Android. Now it's working fine.

Try Opera instead.

 

[ForgottenSeer 97327]

Yes, we are using Cloudflare but it was a powerful attack.

Everything is working fine now, right?

Yep, after prooving to be human, it connects, so Cloudflare protects against DDos hammering

 

[cartaphilus]

Yep, after prooving to be human, it connects, so Cloudflare protects against DDos hammering

Do you classify yourself as human?

 

[Jack]

Spying feature hehe

Made a few changes: The block will show max 3 avatars and the other members will be displayed as a number. The block will show only if 3 members are reading the thread.

 

[ForgottenSeer 100397]

I am also experiencing the Cloudflare verification problem whenever I open my browser and visit MT.

 

[Spiff]

If in Account Settings, Privacy, one has "Show your online status" and "Show your current activity" disabled, shouldn't that user be hidden from that new "Also reading" thingy as well?
If so, that doesn't work correctly, as it shows user Spiff.

Yes, your avatar will not show up if you have those settings disabled.

Err.. I have those settings disabled, and as you could see, user Spiff was in the image you posted.

Made a few changes:

Thank you, Jack.
Did you notice what I wrote, that even though "Show your online status" and "Show your current activity" were disabled, my avatar still showed in "Also reading this" in the image you posted?
Were you able to fix that?
If not, I won't worry about it.
Myself, I filter that new "Also reading" element using uBlock Origin filtering (as I filter quite a lot of elements, among which are all "Likes" elements).

 

[Jack]

Were you able to fix that?

Admins can bypass that privacy setting for moderation, however, the other members will not be able to see that.

 

[Spiff]

Admins can bypass that privacy setting for moderation, however, the other members will not be able to see that.

Ah, OK, I understand.
Thanks very much.

 

[Jack]

Top 5 IPs that attacked us:

100M requests in total in less than 1H.

 

[Jack]

Imho We need a dedicated Android/iOS app.

Have you tried our web app (PWA)?

I have finished all the tweaks for the "also reading" block. Max 4 avatars will be shown and all the other members will be shown in a count. Let me know if you like it, if not I can remove it.