Cloud Nine

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xane

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Reported from ISP Review UK

Today looks set to be a sad and frustrating one for anybody who was ever a customer of the once popular unmetered dialup and broadband ISP Cloud-Nine.

At precisely 10:16am a few minutes ago Emeric Miszti (CEO) and John Parr (Operations Director) of the C9 ISP posted what's likely to be their final announcement on our forums. C9 is now the latest ISP to close, although it's the first we've ever seen to go from a hack attack!:

Cloud Nine regret to announce that at 7:45 this morning the decision was taken to shut down our Internet connections with immediate effect.

We tried overnight to bring our web servers back online but were seeing denial of service attacks against all our key servers, including email and DNS. These were of an extremely widespread nature.

We felt we had a moral duty not to expose our customers to possible attacks as well.

We must thank BT for all the help they provided us with in trying to bring these attacks to an end. We worked with them for the last few weeks to investigate this problems but ultimately we did not believe that we could survive these attacks and that it would be in the best interests of both ourselves and our customers to close our Internet service and seek a transfer of our services to another ISP.

We now wish to initiate a speedy transfer of servers, domain names, etc to interested Surftime ISP's and NT portfolio hosters since this would be the quickest way to get the affected customers online again. Please contact John Parr on 07740 423993 if interested.

We want to thank our customers for all the support over the last few days. Ultimately these attacks denied the service not to us but to many thousands of British businesses and ordinary people - this was an attack against everyone with no consideration for anyone!

The company is solvent but if a sale of assets cannot take place quickly then an administrator will be appointed. We have had to pay our excellent staff to the end of the month and we feel really sorry for them as well and would like to thank them for all their efforts over the years and the commitment shown over the last few difficult days.

All the directors are feeling absolutely gutted since we have all spent nearly 6 years building this company and its reputation to see it destroyed by a brazen act of cyber terrorism - well at this moment we can think of no words to express our true feelings.

Emeric Miszti
CEO

John Parr
Operations Director

We're extremely sorry to see them go, not least because they often provided a very important insight into the internal wrangling that goes on between ISP and operator, it often goes unmentioned.

However the fact that such a long standing ISP was forced out of business by hackers is also of great concern and will no doubt be picked up on by the media. We can only hope they catch the people involved.
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I find this astounding as this could easily happen to any ISP, I dread to think if my ISP would succumb to this sort of attack.
 
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old.Jas

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I think there is more to it than meets the eye. Shutting down the entire company after a DoS? Seems strange to me
 
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Sar

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Sounds to me like they run out of money and this DoS attack was rather convenient...
 
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old.Jas

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Indeedy - scapegoat

They could be using publicity to launch summit new
 
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old.EnXime

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Oh great, now that means im gonna have even more packet loss, in games, cos of ppl joining freeserve and shit.....

Absolutely bluddy wonderful :(
 
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Testin da Cable

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What followed was first a Firewall password brute force attack resulting in successful hash and destruction of the firewall,"
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what? don't make me laugh heh. their resident geek should be taken out and given the 'idiot' treatment if the above really happend.
 
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Summo

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This has to be arse. Why on earth would a company consider going into liquidation because of a DoS attack? Utter rubbish.

Changing their DNS details and replacing hardware would have stopped the attack as a last resort yet created less disruption.

Somethings going on here...
 
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Sar

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A report on ISPReview claimed that as of 4pm yesterday, V21 had agreed to acquire the assets of Cloud Nine.

This was confirmed by Kevin Baigent, a director of V21. He told The Register that V21 was buying the whole business.



And he hit out at "wild speculation" that the company's decision to close down its operation yesterday was due to anything other than the security attack that floored the ISP.

"We're totally solvent and have a positive balance sheet," he said.

But the scale of the attack was so crippling the ISP didn't have the resources to cope, he said.

"We were too small to cope with an emergency of this size," he said.
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1) If they were solvent they could cope
2) If their equipment is so vulnerable to DoS attacks, then why is it being bought (allegedly) by V21?
3) He is patently lying through his two front.
 
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Summo

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Bollocks from start to finish. A company destroyed by a DoS indeed... Get a troubleshooter in and it'd be resolved within a week.

"Gah! Someone's poking at our firewall!"
"Quick! Sell the company!"

The truth will out.

I smell something fishy. And I'm not talking about the contents of Baldrick's apple crumble.
 
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gremlin

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Originally posted by testin_da_cable
when they poop packets get dropped heh
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and when they fly into each other you get collisions
 
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Testin da Cable

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what happens when they get hit by cars?


:eek6:
 
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bigbb

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Planning for every situation TdC, that's the way.

It must also be taken into consideration the implications of birds being sucked into aircraft engines, in a somewhat humourous manner. This as we are all aware could not only have health and safety impliations but could cause considerable disruption with packet loss to Zetnet's customers.
 
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Testin da Cable

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c9 has been 'saved' ;)
nice way of doing da biz....not =P
 
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