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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TSIS: WHAT IS GOING ON? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JRR4 who wrote (617)	1/13/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Wally	Respond to of 6931

To JR & Froland: SI was victimized by hackers this past weekend. They noted it on their homepage. It's probably what messed you guys up. Here's a copy of the news report: Silicon Investor was brought down over the weekend by hackers targeting the company's Windows NT servers. Silicon Investor's Webmaster, Jill McKinney, who described the attack as a "bonk," said the assault began early Friday. The service was down until Saturday afternoon. The aim of a bonk -- also known as a denial-of-service attack -- is to shut down a Web site or ISP by flooding it with so much traffic that the servers overload. Bonks gained attention last year after such an attack knocked out New York-area ISP Panix. McKinney said she was flooded with E-mails from people who use the popular stock-talk Web site, which typically posts 8,500 messages a day. Silicon Investor still does not know what prompted the attack "There were no voice mails, no E-mails -- nothing. There was nothing that would lead us to identify the hacker, nor do we know that we are being singled out specifically or whether they're going after all Windows NT sites," she said. "I personally feel violated -- there's only three of us that work here, and we're sort of taking this personally," she said. Silicon Investor programmer Brad Dryer said the Web site has since installed the fix, "but we don't know if it's working or if the hacker just hasn't come back. We did see that someone is scanning for open port addresses on our router." Dryer said Silicon Investor hasn't had many problems with hackers before. "It surprised us," he said. "We haven't been susceptible to attack for the past three years. We've always had people banging on our site trying to get in, but until now we haven't had anybody bring us down."

To: JRR4 who wrote (617)	1/13/1998 10:45:00 AM
From: gregor	Respond to of 6931

JR: Don't you find it a little incredulous that shorters are attempting to short TSIS. Just to begin with: the spread between bid and ask on Yahoo is .32 to .38 this morning. By the time they make up the bid and ask on the buy and sell the stock would have to move 8 to 10 cents just to break even. Secondly, this stock has some real potential and fundamentally is not a great short right now. A more likely senario would be the market maker stopping out the stop loss orders,and for that reason I would caution ALL to not place stop orders in this stock either on the buy or sell side....gregor