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Amazon brought down by DDoS? (appscout.com)
9 points by timr on June 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



"Amazon.com was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service attack that struck the Web site's load-balancing system, according to a rumor that's begun circulating among security professionals."

Don't know if it's true, but at least it's a reliable source.


I doubt this story. First, it's not sourced. Second, it lacks details. Third, NEWS.COM went and asked a bunch of actual security people, including Arbor Networks, which operates monitors plugged directly into the backbones of almost every tier 1 ISP on the planet, and nobody corroborated that it was a DDoS.

Who knows, maybe Arbor was covering, or maybe they screwed up. But the evidence for me favors something other than DDoS.


Wouldn't surprise me... there are some huge ghost botnets right now...




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