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UltraDNS, the DNS provider for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Northern California, briefly went offline Thursday due to a reported Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Specifically, their S3 cloud storage service was unreachable from about 5:43 pm to 6:38 pm Pacific Time. While the service itself continued to operate, users …
December, 2009
November, 2009
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30 November
Avoid disaster with DDoS protection
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are an unfortunate fact of life on the web. These attacks can be hard to stop once they occur, but did you know many dedicated server hosts provide protection against them? This service usually takes the form of a firewall or dedicated proxy, and …
June, 2009
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4 June
Chinese Police Detain Four Internet Hackers
On May 19, China experienced widespread Internet outages after hackers took down major DNS servers in a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Chinese authorities now have the four hackers in custody following police investigations in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guandong provinces. The server in question was DNSPod, a Chinese DNS …
May, 2009
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4 May
DDos Attacks on the Rise
Over the last six months, Internet security experts have observed an increase in Distributed Denial of Service of Attacks (DDos). DDoS attacks occur when an attacker uses a large number of compromised computers to send tiny pieces of data, often as small as a 52-byte ping, to a server. So …