This has been posted on my old ISP forum. Is it related. This is an official post from the ISP management.

Forums are being scanned (- 7th June 2006 until - 8th July 2006)
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Guys, we are seeing a high level of russian signups recently, ones that claim to be hackers, so what may happen is our forums may go down for a while to protect ourselves, we think they are scanning our system, we dont know why they are here.
However we are going to watch the network very closely for the next few months to prevent a hacker from attempting any attack on Firenets infrastructure. So if the forums go down, please note, it is only network engineers working on the service.