Extreme Abuse Survey attacks
_http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/_
(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/)
The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings,
questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf-files. More than 750 pages
of
documentation _http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/_
(http://extreme-abuse-survey.net/)
>From :Rutz, C., Becker, T., Overkamp, B., & Karriker, W. (2008). Exploring
commonalities reported by adult survivors of extreme abuse: Preliminary
empirical findings. In R. Noblitt & P. Noblitt (Eds.), Ritual abuse in the
twenty-first century (p. 43). Bandon, OR: Robert D. Reed.
Webmaster's note: These attacks occurred during the first EAS survey
Attacks
On the evening of January 2, 2007, the server faced an intense amount of
port scans at the high and low ports and also attempts to access non-existing
server pages by checking a variety of filenames. For a few days afterwards,
the
nameserver was addressed with several requests (ping, nslockup and trace)
carried out on a large scale. This used an enormous amount of bandwidth,
rendering the server at stake due to this loss. In the first weeks, our
provider's
own web projects had an unusually high amount of traffic suggesting that
unknown people wanted to learn more about those working on the survey.
Fortunately, the attacks gradually diminished and after three weeks almost
ended. In early March, there was another attempt to hack the server by someone
trying to connect to the Microsoft Frontpage serverports which are part of
the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since we did not use these ports,
this attack failed. Parallel to these incidents, third parties made several
attempts to obtain the private data of some surveyors and technicians.
