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July 15, 2014

System Slowdown Today

From about 11AM West Coast time today until about 2PM the Online Time Clock MTS systems experienced something of a slowdown. This appears to have been due to excessive network traffic hitting the servers from a particular country. It was almost certainly a random attempt by a group of computers there to gain access to our servers which they did not. Things are back to normal now and I'm happy to report that the systems we've got in place to deal with this sort of event have worked nicely. Apologies to anyone who noticed that things were a little slow during this time.

And if you're wondering, it's EXTREMELY unlikely that this was anything more than a random attack rather than something that was targeted specifically against the Online Time Clock MTS systems.

Posted by markn at July 15, 2014 7:50 AM