August 2023 - Cyber Incident Response for Griffith Enterprizes

  Hello clients of Goliath Energy Corporation.  I am writing to you today as the head of security and director of Clockworks Security.  Clockworks Security was established as a private security enterprise with the mission directive of working to secure the Goliath Energy Corporation platform and accounts as Goliath conducted its cloud based simulation of a space enterprise.  The value of this simulation cannot be discounted.  Thus, it is with great displeasure, that I must announce that our sister division of Goliath, Griffith Enterprizes, was apparently hit with a DDoS attack resulting in the loss of the home page and the business profile.  However, an internal investigation conducted by myself leads me to assure you that the G.E.C. platform is safe and secure, including Griffith Enterprizes.  This is because the loss was contained and limited to a website which had already been made redundant.  In fact now, the value of the company has increased because it is both more efficient and has lowered its liability, thus reducing overhead.  However, we most certainly hope that the destruction of the website was costly for the attackers.  This is because this website, along with the homepage of Clockworks Security and Goliath as a whole were  designed and are intended only to be free advertising for the companies that are operating using Google Drives and Blogger.  This heinous attack has been documented on G.E.C., G.E., R.S.S. blogs, and now here as well.

Yet, there is a much greater purpose.  These websites were defensive fortifications within cyber-space that were designed to cause the greatest expense to anyone who should take the sites.  It seems our opponents realized that it would be less costly to destroy the site than to take it over.  The nature of our modular and differentiated system platforming and construction ensure that this is the case.  This procedure guarantees that losses were spent in the destruction of the site.  It seems that not only were the attackers unable to attack the core systems of G.E.C., they were also unable to move on to the other shielding sites.  In many ways, the loss of either of the remaining sites (or both) would constitute additional improvements to the platform.  Yet, we cannot let them argue this in their defense.  What the internet is faced with is the loss of a website.  Thus, while Goliath should withstand and survive future attacks on the sister-websites the world wide web would be faced with a set of negative consequences from the loss of digital assets.  For this reason, we must strictly condemn all such attacks and state our willingness to defend ourselves in the future against all would be cyber-aggressors.

This platform has shown a proven ability both to repair and to defend itself as would any space station simulation.  In addition to this, we can report no losses to our attached company of Ragtime Software Studio, or any other of our accounts offering software to our users, who may continue to operate on the platform in a safe manner.  About the nature of these attacks, I can only surmise that while acting as a virtual "Cloud City", G.E.C. was maliciously attacked by the denizens of some sort of evil space empire, perhaps even one with a death star.  The use of a death star against a civil website on the surface web represents the worst sort of cyber crime stemming from the very nature of negligent ethics.  This is the type of evil that Clockworks works on a daily basis to prevent from occurring on the internet and in the real world.  We hope that you will remember this, and continue to operate within a moral framework that stands up to tyranny and embraces the values of liberty and security both at home and abroad.  Thank you for reading.