Dear friends
The Saker blog has been under attack for many months, but we kept it quiet. Our webmaster and sysadmin Herb has successfully beat back all the attacks, but now the enemy has upped both the scale and nature of the attack and we are barely hanging on.
I have two urgent requests:
1) If you are an IT security specialist (or can contact one you know) and you think that you (or he/she), or your company, can help, please contact at the following email as soon as possible: saker-webmaster@yandex.com
Please do NOT email me personally as I am on sick leave and this is way above my IT skills.
2) please circulate this appeal of mine on social media, maybe that will help us get to the right people who can help us.
Finally, we will keep you updated on the old blog’s site here: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
Thank you in advance for any help!
Kind regards
Andrei
PS: if they attack us, it must mean that we are threatening them. So I consider this as a compliment of sorts for the superb work the Saker Team has been doing, especially since my leave of absence for health reasons.
I was able to connect through South Korea but not Canada
works again from Czech Republic on http.
This guy runs a website in Canada, and is complaining about network outages now, too.
https://poa.st/notice/ALHJ2CiXCGkpR3VvdI
Maybe Rogers is having some problems?
How do we know that this message is indeed from Andrei?
It is,MOD.
Thanks, just being one’s usual paranoid self. It is possible to conceive of a situation whereby control of the sites (and email accounts) is actually with the same folks that caused it to go down, who then solicit contact from IT specialists sympathetic to Saker for the purpose of identifying/neutralizing them – baiting a trap as it were.
But a bit over-the-top, perhaps for a site that uses OSINT and basic common sense to make its point. Plus, I reckon that the kind of IT/security experts who read the Saker’s blog are not the kind to be unaware of these games.
Finally, on the issue of covert takeover of a site for the purpose of “cognitive infiltration” (refer noted theologian Professor David Ray Griffin’s book of the same name), I reckon all readers of the blog are well aware of/attuned to such tactics.
Hey!
Well, we(some of us) all knew it was a matter of time.
Evolve!
This evil will not stop. I am glad You are not giving up so easy.
GET READY guys and girls!
These motherlovers have nothing to lose. They ahve invested in the weath pump – so either they kill us or we kill them – or we – depopulate…
Look:
It is REALLY hard to function effectively when You are hungry, thirsty and broke.
Make sure, you are not those. Spend a few bucks on the necessities.
A hundred bucks spent right now WILL set you up for a quarter of a year. I am not shitting ya.
You will not be comfy, but You will live.
Many others will not be so lucky.
Buy some flour, rice at the minimum.
Once the net goes down – THAT is when you know the leash is off.
Stick to Your principles, till Your body can`t take take it.
Good luck!
Remember – a messianic cult is doing this to us all – because…we are just goyim…
Shun them.
There is a case being made that you cant take down the web, too many satellites of which once one goes down, the problem is quickly resolved.
And that’s after broadband and att go down too, they hate their stuff being down too long.
You need to consider the concept, that You know their motivation. I do not know those.
The illusions they talk about I do not like. The ones they campaign about neither.
Them skinny jeans omicron clowns populating our “democracies” make me wonder – if only I could meet one…just one…off camera.
They do not exist in my world.
Satellites work way to slow and unreliable to be of much use for Internet safety.
They are OK for a remote isolated area like a desert or jungle where you have little other options anyway.
A cloud, a flock of birds, a tree, bad weather all turn off satellite internet or make it painfully slow.
The internet was designed to be hard to take down from outside (by USSR nuke attack) it not a vast majority of nodes are down.
However it was NEVER designed to be safe and secure from “inside the network attacks”
And DARPA/US/NSA/CIA can easy take out any internet node if they so want to.
Remember you are inside a network they designed to be resilient to an enemy external nuke attack but NOT to an insider attack.
“Remember you are inside a network they designed to be resilient to an enemy external nuke attack but NOT to an insider attack.”
Excellent insight, Bogdan.
Debt slavery backed by deceitful wars is primarily an insider attack.
Working well in the EU( benelux) even without vpn.
Como un lector de su columna de THE SAKER.IS, se aprecia que lo están hackeando. No podemos ingresar con facilidad. Al parecer, su información de la realidad en Ucrania, molesta a los demás medios en el ciberespacio. Espero que estas acciones no se extiendan a otros portales que con sinceridad exponen lo que sucede en Ucrania. Ojalá se pueda superar esta intromisión.
California coast can connect from my phone T-Mobile but not from my home Spectrum
Sadly enough almost anyone can arrange attacks on single sites these days. It’s up for sale at market places to hire bot nets or buy scripts to bother websites for days or weeks (with traffic DDOS etc).
Which means any motivated enemy, big or small, can do this. Maybe cloudfront can help here a bit. But get someone to audit your site setup as well, to make sure no one is messing there as well.
Good luck! Get well!
I don’t have any skills you need but I did give money. Hope it helps
People who hate Russia love to censor, suppress, and denigrate those who disagree with them. It is like an inarticulate, unruly teenager who tries to impress his friends by vandalizing a neighborhood store. He is blind to his own immaturity.
Regardless, I see these attacks as a badge of honor for this site — something akin to being blacklisted by censorious bureaucrats. What we see here happened to many sites back in February — rt.com, rutube, the Kremlin, to name a few. All it did was motivate me to visit these sites even more — they must be doing good work if people want to shut them down.
Yes the Bellingcat/NSA boy tag-teams here recently weren’t getting anywhere with their lame propaganda and so their bosses dun the dirty.
WTFUD, I agree.
Keep up the good work. They will never defeat us!
For what it is worth Firefox seems to be working, but Brave and Safari are not. Perhaps, try Firefox as needed.
The common solution to DDOS attacks these days is to use a service like Cloudflare. It doesn’t replace your website but acts as a buffer in front of it.
https://www.cloudflare.com
I’ll second this. Cloudflare has sophisticated DDOS protection if you choose to host your site with them. The hosting may cost a little more, but that’s where we in the community can step up with donations.
There is no need to host a site there. The free service is most often more than good enough for ddos protection.
As BraveNewWorl wrote, it can act as front end for thesaker.is site and its free service includes protection from ddos attack.
DDOS attacks are usually launched against IPs rather that DNS names to save on the resources required to perform a lookup. . If you are able to move your IP then repoint your DNS that will often help at least for a while.
I don’t have the needed IT skills to help but i would recommend that the saker also publish everything via Telegram.
There is a problem with Telegram which no one ever discusses. You have to have an account to even access Telegram, and Telegram demands to know your mobile phone number. So right there, you have lost your anonymity, or you have to get a burner phone and lost time and money. Anonymity is a strange thing, hard to have on the web, and the best is only relative anonymity, not absolute safety. Each person has to decide what it’s worth to them. I can live without Telegram.
“I consider this as a compliment of sorts for the superb work the Saker Team has been doing”
The attack must be from a source beyond (even) the power of a government. I think so. However, this power is “schwach” (weak) and ein feigling (a coward), so I think the website will be all right.
It’s curious, I can use http on my phone but not on my laptop. So I’ll just use my phone until it is sorted.
The same here in the UK. I get http on my tablet but not on my laptop
Setup on a TOR site or on the Qortal network. True peer to peer can not be taken down
Good to see you are back, at least for a bit in the UK. I’m a bit passed it (I got old), but my son runs an isp, and can give advice, if I ask him…but you are back now, so should be good. Cheaper in Iceland, than in the UK.
The important thing is Free Speech. You can say whatever you want, even if I or anyone else almost or completely disagrees with you.
Tony
Working in Brazil too.
I’m reposting in in the Telegram groups Inessa S, Donbass Insider and War Gonzo. May somebody there can help.
slightly laggy but working in canadia (without https). it would help if we knew more details. DDoS i’m guessing? port 443? from tor nodes? half open sessions? if i knew i could assist but i’m too lazy for email. not sure if you’re using any reverse proxy but there are ways around those as well.
I can confirm visit from Czech Republic is possible. I offer my help as sysadmin. Good luck!
Working off my phone on Maine.
It works in BC now but it was down this morning. Rogers is still down everywhere in Canada and is impacting a bunch of things but I dont think that is the problem.
Parabéns! Certificado de competência. Eles são fracos.
Congratulations! Certificate of competence. They are weak.
I hope some hostile spy doesn’t present himself as a “volunteer”, claiming to be able to help solve the blog’s security issues. There are more ways to attack this blog then with web attacks. I think there was some agent that got inside the Wikileaks group who played a role in the anti-Assange campaign.
Works again from Sweden. Being down all day.
Maybe Telegram is a solution? For a while?
This is my very personal opinion. I need the Saker!
It has become a waterhole in a western world gone completely mad.
We need honesty. We need honour. We need freedom.
The west has lost. I don’t care about politics any more. With lost I mean something different.
We have lost. Lost everything. Lost decency. Lost love for life. Lost love. Lost God. Gods creation.
Lost what is beautiful.
I sit on my stair. Drink silvano-coffee… (An italian named Silvano teached me…). Coffee with a little whisky… I see the beautiful flowers of summer, the roses, all wildflowers, the apple trees are full of fruits this year. My potatoes are giving plenty. Delicious.
We don’t have saker falcons here. If i am lucky i see the peregrin falcon. The kestrel I see almost daily. Once a week I see the golden eagle. To be true they feel too big. And they are fast.
Less than five minutes walk away runs the stream with trouts. I use to go down there with both the dog and cat following me.
I hope everyone could experience the joy of walking down to the trout stream with your dog and cat following. Both free. They follow by there own fee will. No leashes. Freedom.
I left the big city a few years ago. To much aggression. All those angry people.
For a wonderful time I lived in my old chevy van. But this life had also become difficult. All the old places were now closed. Private road. All the nice places I remembered from childhood. Closed.
Some years ago “van-life” became popular. No, that is not for me. I despice them. Middle-class borrowing money. No I just wanted to find a nice meadow. When you wake up in the morning you open the door and let the dog out. Cook some coffee. Listen to the birds.
In a way you become close to God. A part of the creation.
Why am I writing this?
We all need to get our lifes back.
I look at videos from Donbass. It looks exactly like my childhood. Snall wooden houses with gardens. Gravel roads with telephone posts. Fruit trees in the gardens.
Paradise lost…
It looks poor from the perspective of western suburbs.
I don’t remember we were poor. We had plenty of food. A good house and garden. Fruits conserved for the winter. Jam of all sorts. Potatoes. Everything. And warm clothes.
We had a car. Fully paid like the house.
Now?
Young people sell their souls to the devil (the banksters) to get a small apartment… Leasing a car…
at best… Pretending to be rich not to lose their face… Use a bike and virtue-signaling and pretend to be “green” when in reality they have no money. And the bicycle is often “bought” with credit on the bankcard…
If this nightmarish society, western style, does not end the next step is most probably that children will inherit ther parents debts. Like in old Tibet.
What is wrong with people?
I really hope this blog continues. (Adapt, improvise, overcome! (Clint Eastwood in an old movie.)
Yes, the world is crazy.
…and some say, that Sweden is gone…
Hey, ya know, in a way these reset motherloving kockgobblers are right – there IS too many of us.
Except, most of our concepts of who is – us – is upside down. Literally.
“The Lone Ranger and Tonto are watching a horde of Indian braves bear down on them in full battle fury. “Looks like we’re in trouble, Tonto,” says the Lone Ranger to his pal. “What you mean ‘we,’ white man?,” Tonto responds…”
I could go on, but I am sure you get it.
Meddling. And trying to apply every and all means conceivable against me trying to insulate myself from it.
We have tried alot of shit in the past to remedy the problems, that arise from living next to each other – which in itself is necessary. I can only do so much by myself.
Then we came up with some guidelines of how to do it so each and every disagreement does not end up with a fight to the death and the ensuing vendetta for generations.
You can not do it. Not possible. You can write volumes of legalese, scour our history for wisdom – yet, each and every conflict is unique. Look at the talmud of these insane autists – how many strands of white hair can a black cow have, until we can not call it black anymore…codified.
To me one of Ben Franklin`s quotes kinda summarizes the problem: “A republic if you can keep it”
The fight for dignity goes on.
About the offleash policy: Worx A-OK with my older pooch. The young one is a FERRARI on steroids. 19000 rpm with no off-swich. INSANE! I let her go when I think the coast is clear…then pray…
From Slovenia here, using opera on a mobile via http protocol. Works fine, for now.
There is a guy, one of the faithful and a veritable IT security whiz that might be able to help or at least give you some good advice. He is usually super busy but you can try and contact him.
His site is: https://tribulation-now.org
You can find his contact there
That being said.. i agree that the censorship will only increase in the future. Time to get ready, both spiritually and physically to endure till the end.
There is a – love and/or hate his content – accomplished webmaster named “Jim Stone.” He has posted for years that sites should not use https (only http), and many other tips for when TPTB has decided you should not exist. He is very knowledgeable about tricks which TPTB use to effectively disable unwanted sites.
Jim Stone experienced many attempts to shut him down, which prompted him to diversify his server locations. He can still stay ‘up’ with a few servers under attack. For example:
JS old server IP : 82.221.129.208
JS war server IP : 198.46.190.126
JS war server IP : http://www.voterig.com/
JS new server IP : http://www.jimstoneindia.com/
JS new server IP : http://www.notiniceland.com/
JS new server IP : 194.233.91.97/
Also, he refuses to use high-level tools for page creation, but codes the page himself (to know exactly what is there). He is usefully paranoid, having experienced what happens when you are not.
Stone has repeatedly offered to help (for free) other sites to ‘harden’ themselves. He is hard to reach, as TPTB have tried to isolate him. The latest email address I have is:
claudiaprimerc@gmail.com
Herb might want to track him down and pick his brain, considering that The Saker has evidently been ‘marked’ for oblivion…
I would recommend using some free web crawler to regularly and automatically scrap the main site(s) and produce static html site that would be used as both backup and can be published on the secondary “cheap” hosting alternative (subdomain to thesaker.is like static.thesaker.is this site should be unencrypted i.e. http).
This can be done with very simple script (schedule it to run once a day) that would both scrap the main site, produce static html site and upload/rsync/publish it to the backup site.
Both protected by the cloudflare.
Fix the dns settings so static.thesaker.is is pointing to the backup/secondary site, and you’re done.
Of course, first you need to point to cloudflare dns servers as main servers for your sites at your domain provider, then put some time to properly setup cloudflare.
The main disadvantage of the static html site is that you lose the commenting possibility, but at a time of attack that is more of an advantage because even commenting opens for an extra attack vector.
I would recommend using some free web crawler to regularly and automatically scrap the main site(s) and produce static html site that would be used as both backup and can be published on the secondary “cheap” hosting alternative (subdomain to thesaker.is like static.thesaker.is this site should be unencrypted i.e. http).
This can be done with a very simple script (schedule it to run once a day) that would both scrap the main site, produce a static html site and upload/rsync/publish it to the backup site.
Both protected by the cloudflare.
Fix the dns settings so static.thesaker.is is pointing to the backup/secondary site, and you’re done.
Of course, first you need to point to cloudflare dns servers as main servers for your sites at your domain provider, then put some time to properly setup cloudflare.
The main disadvantage of the static html site is that you lose the commenting possibility, but at a time of attack that is more of an advantage because even commenting opens for an extra attack vector.
Question:
To “schedule” this service once/day, does that mean the static html site still picks it’s own times arbitrarily, to run the transfer?
Good info, thnx!
Andrei Martyanov changed the https in your address. You can click on his saker link and it brings you right here. I normally see you in my newsreader but not for a day and a half now.
Maybe some chuckles? Perhaps the US is trying to establish another country with a sufficiently high firearm-related deathrate to make its own look reasonable? And it needs a warzone to make it happen. – the hermit
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/07/blow-joe-go-go-immature-blow-bag-gone.html
I am in the United States. I have been denied access to your site. Repeatedly. I have found backdoors from time to time.
Same here for several days, but obviously got through tonight. Site “refused to connect” msg.
Was down this a.m. but is now working on Cape Cod, Mass.
Need a backup server site in Russia etc… or Brazil.
Moin,
Verbindung klappt wunderbar über Telegram.
Lese alle Beiträge aufmerksam. Macht weiter so.
Good morning,
Connection works wonderfully via Telegram.
Read all posts carefully. Keep it up.
I was never into any of this war stuff, but I was the youngest of 5. My older two bothers and two sisters, had all been born during WWII, and had personal experience of Nazi bombs falling in their roads and streets, whilst our Dad, a Brilliant Engineer patched up The Spitfires, almost as fast as they landed at London Airport in Croydon (now a rare cow field)
There was no war, in my lifetime, so in the summer of 76, it was very hot, and I was 23, I turned up at Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding club, and saw this kid about the same age as me, fly this Polish Pirat Glider over Great Hucklow Ridge at about 100mph.
I was the first to run over the field, when he landed..
I thought blimey. I want to do that, and did.
I immediately joined the next Gliding course available at Lasham, and went on my motorbike, the next day, and stayed for another week in a bunkhouse, and eventually went solo
Derek Piggot taught me everything important, that I will ever know.
He took me to the limit, and I didn’t eff up.
He says to me – Tony – you are Ready to go solo now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Piggott
No wars involved – just soaring thermals, under the power of the sun for fun
No one wanted to kill anyone else.
We just wanted to learn to fly, and we did.
Nothing military about it.
Just kids learning to fly,
Mainly boys, but she was ny friend.
If she can go solo, so can i
We were in the same team,
Tony
Oh man, the memories…
One time,(no radio, no nuttn) they sent up a screw plane to flag me down after they told me I can stay up as long as I could. It was a touch bumpy up there, but fun. Had to work the stick hard to stay upright – the termals were nutz.
So I land…heavily crabbing – whatever. Plenty of room. Ops set up in the field according to wind direction. so…
They shut down the ops for the day on account of the windspeed. Was FUN!!!
Have next to nothing – like 30 hours in a glider…mabbe?
5-10-30 minutes flying in a week gave me wings the whole week after – and before…
Thanx for the reminder!
Yeah, I too saw thesaker offline and thought immediately it was an attack of some kind. Now confirmed.
I know jimstone.is (now jimstoneindia.com) uses direct IP address and codes his own site, maybe someone looking after thesaker should get in touch with him – he has offered to help other sites get through many types of censorship.
Even if some/many of my regularly visited websites go down, I have them burned into my memory and 1) teach/tell everyone I know about them and their content, and 2) will never stop to search until I can find them again perhaps at a different address. “They” will not win this war – in fact they only make us angrier and more determined.
I think 5 or 6 sites I go to have gotten attacked in the past couple months. Something is afoot.
Working off my Mac in NorCal; hang in there, we are all in this together.
Worpress is very vulnerable to different kind of attacks.
Vast majority of them can be avoided getting your site under protection services like Cloudflare which is affordable.
Use OpenBSD.
Using a VPN .
Cannot connect from Switzerland.
Connected to you from India on the first attempt but not subsequently .
Now coming through Mexico.
The connection either hangs without messages or I get the error:
“Error establishing a database connection”
Most low cost VPN providers have been infiltrated and first record IP addresses of anyone attempting to access “forbidden” sites then subsequently they block access for that user. Hence you could connect then afterwards blocked. The vast majority of alternative sites are blocked or have ceased to exist over the last few years since the “estabishment” has practically infinite resources. The Ukraine crisis has focused the censors on those remaining sites that provide any balanced point of view against the massive anti-russia war preparation propaganda campaign underway. Your site has survived upto now because it mainly attracts those already “awake” like infowars and global research it does not carry more diverse “popularist” news that could attract the sheep and so might awaken them. However since the situation is rapidly approaching all out war then it has been decided to silence all opposition.
“Independent” media in The Czech Republic went through the same situation since February 2022. Coordinated attacks, outlawed restrictions from the government and intelligence services… The technical solution was just a part of resistance. But the most important thing seems to be to stay in touch with your readers during this small blackout and it appears that Telegram was perfect solution…
I hope this blog will continue, somehow, despite the recent attack that it suffered. I do appreciated much of its materials and the way things are organized in it.
I ask myself if it was a coincidence, that the attack came shortly after the post with the briefing related to some military biological activity.
It was not a coincidence, by the way, that the first time I got censored in the web was when I posted on my facebook page something related to the same thing.
I kept failing,then tried http://www.thesaker.is which was listed, and it worked!!
ps here in fuhrer Ursula land I cannot get RT or strategic culture -just 403 forbidden!!
Use Opera browser and http:// link, it works.
Google Chrome seems to be blocking access to the site intermittently.
Sometimes I can access this “http” site and sometimes not.
May be it or may be something else.
Dear Andrei,
I couldn’t connect to the Saker from Malaysia for nearly 2 days. Glad to see that I can now.
Unfortunately, I am no IT expert to be able to help in any meaningful way.
That Saker has been under cyberattack shows you guys are speaking the truth and already won moral victory over the enemy.
Take care and get well soon Andrei!
Was down on Saturday and Sunday in Iran and I suffered serious withdrawal…
Welcome back, my favorite site and people, sight for sore eyes…
About 4 days the side was unreachable from the Netherlands. Sorry, no IT knowledge her, but there are websites under full, heavy and continuous attack, like Pamela Geller, Steve Bannon, Dennis Prager,..
Perhaps their webmasters could give some advise ?
Glad to see you are up and running again. Could not get through for DAYS!
Just now able to connect here in the evil empire To be honest ive been amazed for a long time now the site hasnt been stormered domain stolen long before now…Do you have a tor address..? They cant stop that.. Thank you for what you do please stay after it