It appears the site suffered from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Spamhaus servers were hit with a huge amount of data via an attack technique known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
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.
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.
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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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.
In a tweet on its Twitter feed, MTGox said it was fighting off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which involves a site being bombarded with huge amounts of data.
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.
That means they could be used to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack on a victim's computer.
With Windchimes, we imagined adapting payphones to create a distributed environmental sensor network in service of New York City residents and visitors.
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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.
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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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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Spamhaus accused Cyberbunker, a Dutch Web-hosting company, of coordinating the so-called distributed denial-of-service attack against it, according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corp.
Botnets can send spam and flood Web sites with countless requests for information, a cyber attack also known as distributed denial of service.
Gaffney, Jr. noted in a column distributed last week by FoxNews.com, Ms. Malkin has rendered an invaluable service by identifying a number of areas in which corrective action is urgently needed if the homeland is to be made appreciably more secure.
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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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.
Information posted through the service is distributed not only through Twitter but also through a variety of financial news sites, including Yahoo finance and Reuters.com, among others.
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Some 29 institutions were affected by so-called distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) which overload a site with data causing it to fall over.
Last week, the Secret Service distributed new rules for its agents on assignment intended to prevent a repeat of such alleged misconduct, according to two government sources familiar with the resulting investigation.
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These types of solutions require real-time QOS decisions, perhaps based on distributed charging models, requiring an online dialogue when the system detects a problem or opportunity to offer better QOS. Service data flow detection could also help determine the value of a particular service at a particular instant.
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