This is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, and it is well within the capabilities of a botnet.
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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On Monday evening, Tehran time, hackers began using "distributed denial of service" attacks to flood Iranian government Web sites with requests for information that took the sites offline.
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.
"The attacks against Estonia and Russia were coordinated, deliberate, targeted denial of service attacks--using botnets and distributed denial of service attacks--against selected organizations and infrastructure within those countries, " he says.
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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Many people are familiar with Anonymous, the hacker collective that is known for its DDOS, or distributed denial of service, attacks that take websites offline, and backed the 2011 Occupy movement and WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
One tool that works particularly well for these folks is the distributed denial of service (DDS), which involves firing so many requests at a given Website that it can no longer serve its normal users.
"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.
Both the tiny English version and the more complete Chinese languages version has been whacked with over a near daily dose of 2.3 giga of a distributed denial of service attacks believed to come from the Chinese government.
Cybersecurity research firm Damballa on Monday revealed a new collection of malware-infected computers, mostly located in China, that are set to target servers with Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, overwhelming victim sites with fraudulent traffic and taking them offline.
"Distributed denial of service attacks are probably the worst threat we face on the Net, " said Cerf, who estimated that about 15% of the computers on the Internet or more than 150 million machines have been hijacked into botnet armies.
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