From BALPA HQ...........................
During the past 48 hours we have been experiencing some difficulties with the BALPA website. Users may have noticed problems with their usual links and access to forums or homepages.
These problems have been caused by an exceptionally high demand being made on our web server, which has slowed down the server considerably and is affecting the functionality of internal and external links. This is believed to be the result of a Denial of Service Attack, or DOS, which is an explicit attempt by attackers to prevent legitimate service users from using a service (in this case by flooding the network).
These plonkers who carry out the DOS attacks are still around!
Cheers