Ben joined Virya Technologies back in 2009 as a freelance contractor, providing support to our IT clients around Suffolk and Essex.  He joined our team on a full-time basis in February 2012 and leads up the IT Support team.  Ben has also been key in moving our business processes towards a completely Open Source setup, and is a frequent contributor to several open source projects.

As you are probably aware by now, we were the subject of a distributed denial of service attack which commenced on the evening of Monday, 12th December 2012, targeted against the IP of our server. This article is hopefully an explanation of exactly what happened, a timeline of events, and what we are doing to prevent it happening again. We also hope it answers some questions you might have about the process we went through to recover the sites.

Our company server went down at midnight, we were looking for emergency out of hours support and Virya Technologies was there to help when no one else was answering.  Within 10 minutes an engineer was on the phone sorting it out.

We contacted Virya Technologies after being given 48 hours notice to resolve a spam issue on one of our servers.

Virya Technologies are in the process of becoming an approved Google Apps partner, and during this process we have a special offer for businesses wishing to make the move to the cloud.

It was a question that we have been pondering for quite some time - how to set up our business processes such that our staff can work as effectively from home as they can from the office - which became even more pressing with the imminent arrival of a baby to one of our core team members, necessitating flexible working arrangements. 

Virya Technologies had always operated our own in-house systems but they were creaking with the increasing demands of using multiple computers, multiple operating systems, and working hundreds of miles away from the office for periods of time.

Homogenous -

Management love homogeneous networks; they reduce the amount of training needed, the number of IT Technicians to offer support and, of course, offer an opportunity to obtain bulk discount through volume licensing.

But in pursuing lower capital and maintenance costs, are these same managers opening their networks to attack?