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Sun Grid Hit by Network Denial of Service Attack

Stephen Shankland writes on C|Net News:

Sun Microsystems' Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial-of-service network attack on its inaugural day, the company said Wednesday.

To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation service publicly accessible for, for example, turning blog entries into podcasts. "It became the focus of a denial of service attack," said Aisling MacRunnels, Sun's senior director of utility computing said in an interview Wednesday.

posted by Fergie @ 3/22/2006 06:12:00 PM