May 5, 2006
DDoS Knocks Over TypePad
Six Apart, creaters of the blooging tool Movable Type and the hosting service TypePad, was the victim of a massive DDoS Attack. It seems a Russian spammer trying to take down the Anti-Spam company Blue Security, hit TypePad when they redirected their website there.
Ouch. Thousands of sites went down, details are still emerging. Reminds me of a similar attack written up in CSO last year.
Blue Security Press Release [BusinessWire]
Detailed Profile of a DDoS [CSO]
UPDATE:? Spammer Speaks [Wired]
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