Update: Cyberattack Knocks Millions of Blogs Offline
As a matter of course, I try to follow up on the previous blog entries/stories that I've provided excerpts from here on the blog, with any new information.
In this case, it is apparent that the popular trade press hasn't figured out yet that the DoS that took down so many blogs is due to Blue Security -- in a 'tit-for-tat' retaliation for their Blue Frog thingy.
As stated in this post on the NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) mailing list, the whole meltdown is due to the fact that Blue Security's DNS entry for their web site actually points to a Six Apart blog.
Joris Evers writes on C|Net News:
About 10 million LiveJournal and TypePad blogs were offline or barely reachable for several hours Tuesday as the result of a massive denial-of-service attack.More here.
The attack started around 4 p.m. PDT, targeting the popular blogging services and the corporate Web site of their provider Six Apart, company vice president Anil Dash said in an interview Wednesday. Service was back to normal at midnight, according to Six Apart's Web site.
posted by Fergie @ 5/03/2006 06:02:00 PM
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