Yesterday we experienced a DoS (denial of service) attackwhich is a computer crimeh and punishable with fines or imprisonment or both.

Apparently are troll does not like being banned or having comments deleted. I say that because of the timing (for new readers we've had thousands of vulgar or harassing comments posted to the site over the past year, many of which were deleted last week) and the fact that our troll has been using a random set of IP addresses to post comments on the site (and adopting a wide variety of aliases to do so ). Whether this our troll (or trolls as there may be a a few people involved) or an unrelated attack remains to be seen but our web host is investigating it and, if the person(s) is/are identified they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fortunately, whoever it was left fingerprints everywhere so there is plenty to work with in tracking them down.

In the meantime, we've taken various steps to address the problem as best we can. A determined criminal like this person or persons has many ways to cause problems for a site like Olbermann Watch so I have no doubt they will continue to launch attacks, some of which may succeed, but we will do what we did last night is address them and put the site right back up.