Regretfully our website, in common with most others, is subject to continuous cyber attacks. The people behind the attacks are looking for things like credit card numbers (which we do not accept through the website). The image below shows one week of attacks of different types which have been blocked.
You may notice that many appear to come from the USA. In fact most of these are from eastern Europe, the Middle East and Russia, and are using ‘cloaking’ to shift the blame to the USA due to the problems in the middle east.
We don’t have a large team of cyber security specialists (just a few white mice who keep an eye on things), and as a result we do recommend that you do not use the same password on sites like this as you do for your important financial sites (banking etc.) . That way should one of these attacks be successful the information available is very limited.
In the meantime the white mice will work to keep you safe.
