It appears the site suffered from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.
It also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation and cyber-threat reporting.
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In 2002 they were flooded with traffic from tens of thousands of infected computers in an unsolved "distributed denial of service" attack.
Botnets can send spam and flood Web sites with countless requests for information, a cyber attack also known as distributed denial of service.
Spamhaus servers were hit with a huge amount of data via an attack technique known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Known as distributed denial of service, the attacks employ multiple computers to flood networks with millions of simultaneous requests, overwhelming servers and crippling Web sites.
The group said it had used a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) which bombards a target website with so much data that it becomes overwhelmed.
Loss of data center availability due to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has emerged as one of the most prevalent and costly forms of cybercrime.
Botnets are often used to mount distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks - forcing websites offline - to run spyware or to send out spam emails.
Jake Davis, 18, was charged with unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website.
These offences cover the acts of unauthorised access to personal accounts, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attacks and intrusive hacks where data is taken or systems changed.
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Both were accused of carrying out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which refer to flooding web applications with so many online requests that they temporarily shut down.
Denial of service becomes distributed denial of service, because instead of just a single PC, there are thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of machines involved in the attack.
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The attackers have used a tactic known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which floods the intended target with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to render it unreachable.
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Security experts said the attack used more sophisticated techniques than most distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks and targeted the Web's infrastructure, which led to other sites performing slowly.
Security experts say the attack uses more sophisticated techniques than most DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks and targets the Web's infrastructure, which has led to other sites performing slowly.
This so-called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack relies on having enough users, voluntary or not, to flood a site with so much traffic that it gets shunted offline.
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The UK Serious Organised Crime agency took its website offline for several hours on 20 June after it appeared to be a victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Sony was the target of a number of cyber attacks last year, kicking off with a distributed denial of service attack by the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous in April 2011.
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If the Twitter handle really is behind the outrage, via what he claims was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack coordinated by public and private bot scripts, his motivations are unclear.
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"Those thinking of engaging in such activities should be warned that hacking, creating or propagating malicious viruses or participating in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not harmless fun, " Cyber Crimes Commander Glen McEwen said.
Cory Doctorow has recently written a thought-provoking piece for Make about the nature of distributed denial of service (DDoS, flooding a website with illegitimate traffic to cause it to crash) as a form of political protest.
Forbes colleague Kelly Clay has posted five reasons why Website publishers to should leave GoDaddy, the Internet registrar and site host hit today with a massive distributed denial of service attack, allegedly by hackers who claim to be aligned with Anonymous, the shadowy online activist group.
The TechHerald points out that Sony has suffered seven security incidents in two months, including an original mass DDoS (distributed denial of service) by Anonymous last month and the devastating breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million account holders of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment.
Within hours, according to the cybersecurity researchers at Panda Labs, the loose group of hackers that calls itself Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack that threw junk traffic at the web server of the blog that had made the WikiLeaks announcement, and by 4am had taken the site offline.
GitHub, the social coding service, has been plagued by two days of distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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The recent rash of distributed denial-of-service attacks on large American banks has disrupted the delivery of banking services to consumer and commercial customers over the Internet for hours at a time.
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Russian hackers, meanwhile, took to the Net, launching waves of distributed denial-of-service attacks against the country's government, banking and media Web sites, using thousands of personal computers hijacked with hidden software to overload the servers.
Anderson said the U.S. may end up with a new type of weaponry for launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks and computer viruses.
Those included posting private data, including credit-card and Social Security numbers, of Web users and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against media sites who posted stories they didn't like.
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