Movember is here, sorry, I meant November.
I have decided to put down my razor for one month (not that I ever use one) and help raise awareness and funds for men's health - specifically prostate cancer by sporting a moustache.
What many people don't appreciate is that one man dies every hour of prostate cancer in the UK, more than 35,000 men will be diagnosed this year and that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. Facts like these along with my grandfather, who has prostate cancer, have convinced me I should get involved.
Why not check out the progress of my top ...
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Apologies to those customers affected by the disruption to some of our web and email serivces this morning.
We experienced a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack on our main firewall which sent an overwhelming number of requests through the firewall, causing slow response rates for web and email services.
The source of the attack has now been identified and dealt with accordingly.
DOS attacks can be particuarly difficult to deal with as there is no easy way to stop a request from hitting the firewall and even though we can block requests from specified IP addresses, the firewall still h ...
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