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Twitter's DNS was "compromised" — What does that mean?

February 16, 2025
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So last night at about 10pm, Twitter was displaying a message that it had been hacked by the Iran Cyber Army. There was much speculation as to how Twitter got hacked, as Twitter.com was not functioning but some APIs and Tweets were working. It wasn’t until the status page updated that we found out exactly…

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Death to Http Flooders…

February 16, 2025
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So, for those of you that don’t know, I work for a hosting company. I enjoy what I do, and for all intents and purposes, I do a pretty good job at it. Recently, one of the sites we host, was getting hammered, hardcore.

To save on a very long, long, long winded story of how we battled these flooders, I am going to list what we did to get things working well again.

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Leveling whm blows….

February 16, 2025
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I seriously hate playing whm… like with a passion.

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Ancestry DNA Results

March 15, 2020
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edited at 7:32pm PST on March 15th, 2020 to clarify early event. It does not change the core of the events, but to be be transparent, I am updating the post. This has been a post that I have been contemplating doing, but I feel the need to write this up at this point. Last…

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