Reply #14: Some of what was up:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

There are bot programs out there that will try to find exploitable holes in website security, to get their hands on membership files. These bots will hit a website like you wouldnot believe. Also, if there is a blog, they will try to spam the blog with their ads. These bots spam the site with multiple, IP-Shifting hits a second, literally. When I say "multiple", I mean literally hundreds.

The site was running Joomla. One of the components installed on the site was "Community Builder", which handles membership, blogging and a lot more. Right after the "attack" Joomlopolis, the developers of Community Builder went into Full Panic, All-Developers-on-Deck mode. They issued statements to not use CB until they issued the new bugfix.

What I think happened was a bot attack, to try and get email addresses and spam the blog. It swamped the server and knocked it offline. Dan Gerstein and the others decided to make some political hay which, back at that time, was an attack run by "The Bulgarian Brothers" and was purely commercial in nature.

Why do I know that? Well, I am the webmaster of "World News Trust". We run Joomla and CB. We were also being hit by these same attacks and I knew what was going on, because I know how to read logs.

Lamont had nothing to do with this.