Are you aware of the Dos Attacks On PTC Sites?

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I got a mail from one of the trusted PTC owner that there are some malicious DDos attacks going on and they are attaching a whole network of PTCs. Read in detail: This is not some usual DDoS attack affecting 1 site, but a huge, massive one affecting whole networks and Ptcs. It seems that a person or group of people blackmailed various Ptc owners to give them money or they will attack as they have done and are currently doing. What is a DoS attack? From wikipedia: "A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even DNS root servers. One common method of attack involves saturating the target (victim) machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consume its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately. Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB\'s Internet proper use policy. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations.\" Should any PTC site that are being black mailed give in to the demands it will mean the end of a lot of PTC sites since a black mailer will not stop once he gets paid, but continue. If your site is under attack too then contact us send copies of any black mail and we will forward them to the police and the investigators. This is really sad and that is why most of the PTC sites are facing problems in the past few weeks.I don't know what the end of this would be, but I just want to know what you think about this?