Web hoster Media Temple shut down by attack
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Hosting provider for major media companies suffers a temporary outage after being targeted with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
Posts Tagged ‘Denial Of Service Attack’
How To Look For A Good Small Business Website Hosting Company
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Thinking about having a website for your existing business? Or do you want to start a new project and looking for a web host? Or let me guess, your existing web hosting company is the reason you are reading this article because you just can’t hear that – server is down due to DoS (denial of service) attack, we are going through an upgrade process, we are experiencing a hardware failure or (my personal favorite) your IP was blocked on our server, excuses one more time. Believe me! The customer su
Sedo Auction Woes Were Caused by Denial of Service Attack
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
DDOS to blame for problems during auction yesterday. Sedo ’s outage during the .de domain name auction yesterday was not due to intense bidding activity, but was actually a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, reports the company. In a statement released today, Sedo wrote: Due to a malicious attempt to disrupt our services, Sedo suffered from two different distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks which temporarily caused the Sedo and GreatDomains.com websites to be slow
WordPress 2.8.5 Has An Enhanced Security System
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Even the upcoming candidate for the most popular blogging platform WordPress should have the version number 2.9, a new release from the 2.8 branch is available: WordPress 2.8.5. It represents a security update, which should be treated as a priority by WordPress blog owners, because WordPress version 2.8.5 provides a fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack, a recent severe security exploit, identified for several numbers of times.In a post published on the official WordPress Blog, Peter We
Friday» August 7th »12:24 am
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
{ 2 minutes ago }Twitter down – Attacked by DOS Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic time-outs (and more outright downtime). The company is blaming an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack but has not said anything further.Judging by the timeline of my TweetDeck client, it looks like the problems started right around 6 a.m. PDT.“We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly,” Twitter’s staff posted at 6:43 a.
