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Since my report of the recent DOS attack on AdultWork.com, I have been sent quite a large number of e-mails via this site, from people reporting a problem of not being able to see or access their uploaded photos and movies on AdultWork.

First off, let me reassure you all that AdultWork have not lost any of your photos or movies and that the problem you have been experiencing trying to access them is just a temporary one. All of your photos and movies will be available to you and anyone visiting the site in the next day or two. Actually, you should find that most, except for a few in the 'Private Galleries', are available now.

"So what was the problem with my photos and movies, then?" I hear you ask...

Well, from information that I was able to gather from the website, their technical team have been doing some major maintenance, by adding some newer, bigger servers, which will improve the speed and performance of the site for everyone. Part of this process usually involves backing-up and saving all of the data (your photos and movies in this case) from the old servers, before removing them. Then, installing the new servers into the system and running a multitude of tests on them, to check their performance, has to be done before uploading all of the saved data to them.

For a site as large as AdultWork's, with thousands upon thousands of photos and movies on it, you can understand why this important maintenance work would take a few days to complete. The end result though, is a more stable, better performing site, with faster loading pages and access. So, the recent problem you've been experiencing, is a small price to pay.

If you experience any other problems with the AdultWork site in the future, below is a quick tip that could help you to find out what might be wrong.

• Tip: So long as you can access the 'Home' page (not the 'Enter/Leave page) of the AdultWork.com website and if AdultWork are aware of any problems, then they will normally post an alert about it on the very top-right of the page, as shown in the image below.

• The image above also shows an 'Info' link in the alert, that will take you to a page that explains the problem in more detail and, if known, how long they expect the problem to last.

In my own experience, I very rarely ever encounter any problems on the AdultWork site, but on the few occasions that I have, they have always been resolved quickly. This is one of the reasons I regard AdultWork to be one of the very best sites to advertise my services and would recommend it to anyone.

If you found this information useful, or if there's anything else you'd like to add to it, please do so by leaving a comment below.

The Sexiest Exhibition This Year

Barbican Art Gallery - London
12 October 2007 - 27 January 2008

The Seduced exhibition explores the use of sex in art through ancient history to modern times. Featuring over 300 works spanning 2000 years, a truly magnificent collective gathering of classical Roman sculptures, ancient Indian manuscripts, Japanese prints (some of which found exclusively in brothel houses), Chinese watercolours, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and 19th century photography with modern and contemporary art.

Seduced presents the work of around 70 artists including Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt van Rijn Andy Warhol among others. Seductively stimulating the mind and the senses, both provocative and compelling, Seduced provides an historical and cultural medium to explore the limitations of acceptability in the arts. Seduced is curated by Marina Wallace, Joanne Bernstein and Martin Kemp.

Watch the video review of Seduced on BBC 4 News

The bravest and most intelligent exhibition of the year – The Guardian

Also at Seduced...

Late night Thursdays - Turn up between 6:30-10pm and indulge yourself with Seduced cocktails and aphrodisiac snacks from the bar, while you enjoy events that include artist commissions, live music, erotic readings and talks.

Seduced - Sex and Censorship in the Cinema - This major film season includes uncut versions of films previously banned by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC), as well as an exciting selection of classics, special screen talks and panel discussions.

Art Gallery Shop - The Shop has a range of gifts to complement the current Seduced exhibition, from indulgent chocolates to original ceramics and cushions, as well as seductive candles and massage oils. There's also a comprehensively illustrated book which accompanies the Seduced exhibition, featuring essays by Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp, Joanne Bernstein and Caterina Albano, designed by Kerr Noble and published by Merrell, the book is available for just £29.95.

Barbican Art Gallery opening times for Seduced
Over 18s only - This exhibition contains work of a sexually explicit nature.
Tickets: £8/£6 Timed tickets.
Daily 11.00am – 8.00pm (Except Tue & Wed 11.00am–6.00pm)
Late night Thursdays till 10pm

In the very early hours of this morning, the AdultWork.com website suffered a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack which caused the site to stop functioning for a short period of time for it's members.

I was actually awake and on the site at the time that this happened, updating my AdultWork profile page there, when everything started to go a little bit crazy. Pages on the site became very slow to load, sometimes not loading at all, until eventually I could no longer access the site, no matter how many times I swore at my computer screen.

A couple of hours later, I went back to the AdultWork site to try and finish what I was doing and everything was back up and running as normal. The only difference was a short message from the owners, at the top-right of the page, informing everyone that they had been attacked and were in the process of taking preventative measures to stop it happening again.

"What the fuck is a Dos attack, anyway?"

Well, it's really quite complicated and technical to explain to anyone who isn't familiar with this kind of thing, but the Wikipedia website explains it simply as this:

A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to, motives for and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally comprises the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely.

Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically — but not exclusively — target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers; a pair of DNS Backbone DDoS Attacks, on October 22, 2002 and February 6, 2007, targeted DNS root servers, in an apparent attempt to "disable the Internet" itself by taking away an option of addressing Internet servers by their human-friendly names.

One common method of attack involves saturating the target (victim) machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by:

* forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consume its resources such that it can no longer provide its intended service; and/or,
* obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.

Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB's Internet proper use policy. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations.

Or to put it another way, a Dos attack is nothing more than a terrorist type attack, conducted over the internet against a website, with the sole intention to stop that website from working.

Anyway, I've just gone back to check the AdultWork site and the message from the owners about the attack has now gone, so I would imagine that everything is now back under their control. Good on ya, AdultWork team...

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