 Hackers hit the Freedom Community forums an hour ago, and our team already defeated the attack, but what they tried to do was bring down the site with a SIN attack. I'll explain that and how to protect yourself or your website should this happen to you. So the Freedom Community forums are at www.community.tm, and I will hide myself so you can see them. This is the site that was down for about half an hour due to a flood of fake TCPIP requests called a SIN flood or a SIN attack, and as you can see the forums are back online with an active chat, and if you don't know about this just head on over to community.tm and interact with us here on the forums. So this is the graph of our network traffic. You can see a tremendous spike right here, and I'll zoom in a little bit, and if you look at this one chart here, which is the network out chart, there was a lot of these SIN requests preventing legitimate traffic and causing the forums to go down. So here is normal traffic down here, and here is the attacker. So for those of you who want to learn more about this, I've collected the articles that we read in order to learn how to defeat this attack very quickly, and you can find all those articles down there in the description below so you can click them and read them. But basically a SIN attack is someone faking millions of requests to try to get your server to respond, but they're all fake requests. So here's the description. In a SIN flood your server is bathed in a wash of SIN messages and your kernel, the trusting fellow that it is, responds to all of these requests in good faith and waits for the response. Now there isn't any response, and the solution to this attack, and this is what you can do to protect your site should this happen to you, is to turn on what is called TCP SIN cookie protection. So here's how it works. If an attacker is flooding you with fake requests, they're not going to respond. When you send a cookie, this tells the server remember if I sent a cookie, and if I didn't get a response, then consider this an attack and ignore future requests. And this describes, this article describes how to turn on your cookie protection, but the reason it's not on by default, you might be thinking, well, if this is such a good thing, why don't all web servers have this turned on by default? And the third link talks about the potential problems this can cause by denying legitimate traffic. People who you want to visit your site may be prevented from visiting the site because of all of these settings regarding the protecting against the SIN flood. So all the links are down there in the description below. How does this make you feel? How do you respond to people who are just out there to cause grief and trouble for a friendly, welcoming community? Well, to me, it makes me feel good that we've attracted so much attention that there are some people going out of our way because of jealousy or envy or who knows why to try to take us down. But how does it make you feel? Tell me in the comments below. And let's ask the chat. This is me hiding myself, and let's communicate with our team, our forum users. Hi, Freedom Family, this is George. A smile for the camera. I am recording an episode of George's show to describe why the forums went down for a little while and what we did to bring them back up. So you can see there is an active community here that's talking to me and I invite you to do the same. So Nerd responded, hello, George. Kronaut said, oh, hi, George. Oliver Harper said, hey, George, just engaging with the community, trying to get feedback on my channel. And Defender833 said, Harper, okay, I like the idea of the slender man. So you get the idea. Go to community.tm, chat with us, get some great feedback for your channel, share your feedback with others. And as always, comment down there because every single comment will get a reply beneath every episode of the George show. That is the job of the community team. No comment left behind is their motto. Want to meet the community team? Click that I up there. That'll take you to the video introducing who the initial members of the community team are and how to join them. But I can tell you how to join. Just be active in the comments below. And if they notice you, they will invite you to join the community team. And I'm sorry that this video is not the high production value of yesterday's video, where I introduced the new freedom studio and how large freedom partners may be invited to join us here in the Philippines. All expense paid, we fly you out here so you can film for a month or longer high production content. Missed that video? Click that I up there. That'll take you to the new freedom studio, where you can see me doing a cartwheel and failing at it, as well as a few questions like, should we do a fitness show? So check that out. And who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of NETV. Normally that says freedom, but today I'm wearing my NETV shirt because, for those of you who don't know, NETV, ANY.TV is the name of our company that powers freedom. So freedom is our brand. Freedom is the beautiful family that we all are. And what is the spirit of freedom? Say it with me. To help each other grow together as a family. So freedom is the brand what we're all known by, but NETV is our legal name. So it's like, my name is not George. Did you know that? My legal name is Yuray Vanos. So Yuray Vanos is what I was born as in Slovakia in a little town called Gilina. And when I came to Canada, well I didn't come. My parents brought me. I was only five years old at the time. Then Yuray is George in English, just like Jorge is George in Spanish and Yuri is George in Russian. So I'm going by the English version of my name George, but my legal name is actually Yuray Vanos. Or I go by George Venous. So I hope this helps you understand what NETV is. And I am George and you've been watching. And we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family. You are part of it. We are all part of it. And we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.