Humpty Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Even one of the UK's most popular websites can't escape Denial of Service attacks, which are reaching ever higher levels of traffic. The BBC website has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, according to reports. According to a statement sent to the Inquirer with confirmation from server uptime monitoring company Pingdom, the attack crippled the performance of the website last Thursday (6 November). The attack lasted from 6pm to 11pm. Downtime was spread over multiple short intervals, each lasting a few minutes. This led to a total period of more than an hour where the website was not responding at all. ITPRO Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominiqueNaylor Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Really you need a good protection from ddos attacks provider that is willing to filter traffic to disable a DDoS attack in the event you have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted March 14, 2009 Moderators Share Posted March 14, 2009 Really you need a good protection from ddos attacks For a big time website like BBC the monthly protection cost would be like left over pocket change. Now they'll probably enable some protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 There's a bit more to that story BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxPosted by Dancho Danchev @ 6:46 am Update: BBC Click?s tweet states that they took legal advice following comments on the potential violation of U.K?s Computer Misuse Act. There?s a slight chance that you may have unknowingly participated in a recent experiment conducted by the BBC. In a bit of an awkward and highly unnecessary move, a team at the BBC?s technology program Click has purchased a botnet consisting of 22,000 malware infected PCs, self-spammed themselves on a Gmail account, and later on DDoS-ed a a backup site owned by security company Prevx (with prior agreement), all for the sake of proving that botnets in general do what they?re supposed to - facilitate cybercrime. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2868 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/clic...ine/7932816.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7938949.stm "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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