http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/ddos_on_dns_firm/ By John Leyden The Register 16th November 2010 DNS provider sitelutions was floored by a particularly severe denial of service on Tuesday. The Virginia-based internet services firm confirmed its site was offline as the result of a "multi-gigabit" denial of service attack via an update to its Twitter feed. "Websites and data still safe, though there are still occasional DNS lookup issues that we are working on due to the massive attack," it said. sitelutions was able to restore its website by Tuesday afternoon following an outage of around six hours earlier in the day. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Wed Nov 17 2010 - 03:01:11 PST
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