Attack On Former Gawker-Owned Site Crashes Server
Yesterday, our colleagues at AgencySpy floated some ideas as to why Gawker Media’s blogs were experiencing slowness and technical difficulties over the last few days. One theory: a DDos attack:
“A Distributed Denial of Service attack is, simply put, like two or 10 people hitting refresh on Gawker millions of times a minute. Obviously, this is not a hack for the faint hearted (or unskilled). Sometimes it’s one person, others it’s multiple. Sometimes the damage is temporary, others it is permanent.”
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