DDoS Attack Hobbles Major Sites
Apparently someone thought it would be cool to launch a DDoS attack on the DNS provider of companies such as Amazon, Expedia and Wal-Mart two days before Christmas.
Apparently someone thought it would be cool to launch a DDoS attack on the DNS provider of companies such as Amazon, Expedia and Wal-Mart two days before Christmas.
Neustar, the company that provides DNS services under the UltraDNS brand name, confirmed an attack took place Wednesday afternoon, taking out sites or rendering them extremely sluggish for about an hour. A representative who answered the customer support line said the attacks were directed against Neustar facilities in Palo Alto and San Jose, Calif., and Allen Goldberg, vice president of corporate communications for Neustar, confirmed that at about 4:45 p.m. PST, "our alarms went off."
