And turned the deadly daily drip of denial into a massive, meaningful, motivating moment. A friend with weight problems just had a heart attack For fun, take a moment and think about possible search triggers that could have led to these HEY...
Does it have a good load balancer and can it handle a DDOS, or denial of serviceattack? Well first, the protocol is new, developed by Google, untested in the wild, not well reviewed outside of Google, and the very process it uses opens up your...
This is what the channel of an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) looks like during a DDOS, or Denial of ServiceAttack. The LOIC attack allows people to attach to a "Hivemind" and away they go. Basically, a DDOS attack happens when you flood a website with...
A clandestine group that supports Wikileaks is taking responsibility for the DDOS (distributed denial of services) problems Mastercard has been experiencing today, the New York Times reported. According to The Huffington Post: "Other targets that...
As news broke yesterday about the Denial of Service (DoS) attacks affecting Twitter, revelations began to unfold about how widespread the attacks really were. We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DoS attack this...
Twitter Goes Down, Falls Prey to Denial of ServiceAttack [UPDATE” Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 6, 2009 Update 12:13pm EST - Twitter.com is finally up for many users, DoS attack still ongoing. Update: 11:26am EST - Twitter says site is back up...
This was all happening around the same time Twitter went down due to Denial of Service attacks. Another possibility is an attack on those sites as well, but that is just speculation at this point. Update: 1:40pm EST - ZDNet has official yet vague...
Instead, Twitter issued a statement on status.Twitter.com that they're defending against a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack. A DoS attack is a malicious attempt to bring down a website or application so that its users cannot access the service.
Denial-of-serviceattack causes web blackout. Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. Each service uses different methodologies, so the rankings are not directly comparable. Combined, this category accounted for 14% of all internet visits.