http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/033109-ultradns-service-attacked.html By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World 03/31/2009 NeuStar confirmed that its UltraDNS managed DNS service was knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attack. ``Early this morning, our monitoring systems detected a significant denial of service attack, which affected a small subset of our customers, in some cases for as long as a few hours,’’ the Reston, Va. company said in a statement. ``While we continue to investigate the cause, the extent, and the duration of the attack, service was completely restored by 10 a.m. EST.’’ NeuStar is a leading provider of high-availability DNS services to e-retailers including J.Jill and Diamond.com as well as high-tech companies such as Oracle and Juniper. Competitor Dynamic Network Services blogged about the UltraDNS outage earlier today, asserting that it affected Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, advertising.com and Petco.com. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 00:20:51 PDT
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