Ok – so for the 2nd time last month one of my websites was attacked… I simply don’t understand what good it does anyone. I can understand wanting to gain access to a popular site and place links on it for monetary gain, but simply to blank out an index page or take the whole site down temporarily does no one any good.

The timing of the goodsounds.co.uk attack was perfect – just before Google spidered and updated thier search results. For a while Google thought the front page of www.goodsounds.co.uk was just a blank page – I disappeared from search results overnight.

The most annoying thing is that my hosting company don’t seem to care, or tell me anything about what happened and why! Its a big deal and they act as if nothing happened.

Finally this week www.goodsounds.co.ukis restored in the search listings… So where has this got the attacker? Is the fact my traffic has been slightly diminished for 2 weeks satisfying?

I just don’tunderstand the psychology. If I were a hacker which I am not, I would do this sort of thing for one of 2 reasons, revenge and monetary gain. To attack for any other reason is insanity.