OC Today WWW.OCEANCITYTODAY.NET
AUGUST 7, 2015
SPORTS
42ND WHITE MARLIN OPEN After three days of fishing, a 94-pound white marlin tops the leader board – Page 39
SERVING NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY
FREE
OC planner hired, much work to do Bill Neville comes to resort by way of Chincoteague, where he began in 2010
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (Aug. 7, 2015) After a year-long vacancy, the Town of Ocean City has hired a new director of planning and zoning – and not a moment too soon. Bill Neville The city announced this week that former Town of Chincoteague Planning Director Bill Neville will begin as the Ocean City’s new head of planning and zon-
ing on Aug. 24. “My family and I have enjoyed living in and around Ocean City for the last ten years and we are pleased to feel like a part of the community,” Neville said in a press release. “I look forward to working closely with the Mayor and City Council, the staff, the various boards and commissions and, of course, the residents and property owners, to coordinate Ocean City’s Strategic and Comprehensive Plan for a bright future in our first-class resort town.” According to the city release, Neville was the director of Land Planning Services for Daft McCune Walker/DMW, and Senior Land EnSee HEATED Page 6
Inlet maintenance dredging resumes, with more ahead LISA CAPITELLI/OCEAN CITY TODAY
PARASITE CHECK Ann Barse, a Salisbury University biology professor, right, and several students collect specimens and parasites from a 551-pound blue marlin brought to Harbour Island Marina on 14th Street Monday during the 42nd annual White Marlin Open.
By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer (Aug. 7, 2015) As part of the effort to keep the Ocean City Inlet navigable as it continues to fill with sediment, the Army Corps of Engineers said dredging operations would occur again next weekend. Called a “Band-Aid” solution by
Corps personnel, the dredge — paid for with $250,000 in advanced maintenance funding money allocated in late June — will target “hotspots” where the depth is clearly less than the total 12 feet for which the inlet is approved. “The dredging of the Ocean City See EFFORT Page 5
WMO organizers patch up after website attack By Brian Gilliland Staff Writer
(Aug. 7, 2015) It’s a uniquely 21st century problem: the White Marlin Open’s website has been under constant attack since the tournament began on Monday, disabling the pages and interrupting live streaming. As people who attempted to view the weigh-ins online know, attackers
disabled the webcams streaming the event in its first days, but new security measures and an assigned FBI agent could help alleviate the problem, tournament founder Jim Motsko said. “Whatever is trying to attack us can’t get back in,” Motsko said Wednesday. “It’s trying hard to get back into our systems, but so far it’s been unable to get past the enhanced security.”
Motsko said attackers were using a method called a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS. Website data is stored on servers, which answer requests from browsers to display information: pages, photos and videos, for example. A denial of service attack is when someone purposely sends a large volume of junk data and numerous requests in a short amount of time.
Servers can have trouble determining which requests are legitimate and which are bogus, so they try to answer every request they receive, eating up processing power. A computer’s brain is its processor. Servers, especially those housing popular websites, are built to maximize storage and processing power. When a See WMO Page 8