May 3rd, 2006
SixApart falls to DDoS attack
According to the SixApart status site their web properties underwent a Distributed Denial of Service attack starting about 7 PM Eastern last night. The only clue they provide is that it is a “sophisticated” attack. I would speculate that it was a DNS attack because it hit so many of their domains. As I blogged before, this level of attack raises the importance of choosing a hosting provider that has made the investment in the bandwidth and equipment to provide anti-DDoS defenses. SixApart had scaling issues earlier. Evidently even their investment to be more available and improve performance is no avail against the determined hacker or cyber extortionist.
All is well as of this morning.
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