DDoS Attacks
The Internet — By kurteng on August 4, 2009 1:58 pmDDoS: Do you know what this is? Well, you should since it has been in the news over the past few weeks.
The first biggest (media-wise) attack that warranted mention of DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service Attacks happened around July 4th 2009 against the US government. Here is a short video on how DDoS attacks work… after the bump:
In the case of July 4th, tens of thousands of computers were used to “attack” the sites with large amounts of data, eventually causing these websites’ servers to crash due to the overload of information. Now this isn’t the most recent story… let’s take a look at 2 weeks ago…
July 15th, 2009: AT&T decides to send a DDoS attack on a popular image hosting forum called 4chan.org because they claim that one of their customers was under a DDoS attack from someone at 4chan. Well… let’s say that didn’t go so well as 4chan has an awesome reputation of retaliation. The 4chan site ended up being down for days…
Finally, there was a recent attack on the Gawker network, which rendered their site sluggish (as in taking a couple of minutes to load). Apparently, the site was down for quite a few people.
So as you can see, if a website is slow, it might not be because their hosting provider sucks… it might mean they are under attack. OH! And how does one prevent DDoS attacks? If I knew how, I wouldn’t be here right now 
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