Apologies for the inconvenience - PA's been under attack

Since July, robot programmes from a number of different overseas IP addresses have been assailing the Professional Adviser site. Simply put, the bots carry out their attacks by entering a single article thousands of times a second in a bid to crash the page and the website. Given the attacks focused on a story about a disgraced financial adviser with links to the Middle East, perhaps we should take the attacks as a compliment - though we should quickly add our reassurance to readers that they and their information are in no way compromised by accessing Professional Adviser while these bo...