Last night was an interesting one for those over at LifeChurch.tv as they were apparently the victim of a malicious bot/spam attack in their chat portion of their online experience.
As mentioned by Tony Steward, the attacks came near the end of the talk in the chat area:
May this serve as a simple reminder to everyone to have back up plans if your online service goes down and at least some protocol for communicating to the viewers of a potential downtime of their experience, for whatever reason, malicious or simply a mistake.
One thing’s for sure, the fact that someone would spend the necessary time and resources to plan such an attack means, from one perspective, that we’re doing something right:
I wasn’t there, so if you were, love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
What do you think?