Oct 24, 2003 : DDoS Attacks Victimize Popular Weblogs

📅 October 24, 2003 - A series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks hit several popular Web logs in three separate attacks from October 16-21, according to UK research and analysis firm Netcraft (news.netcraft.com).

According to Netcraft, many of the most popular blogs are hosted by Hosting Matters (hostmatters.com ). The Jacksonville, Florida-based company was flooded by up to 150 megabytes of data per second on October 16, leaving most clients offline for much of the day. The provider was attacked again on October 20 and October 21.
The site targeted for attack, according to Netcraft's report, was Internet-Haganah.org, a site that identifies Web sites with terrorist links and then lobbies hosting providers to shut those sites down. Weisburd said his site was targeted by Al Queda sympathizers while Hosting Matters did not comment on the identity of either the target or attacker. Internet-haganah.org was down for a total of 15 hours during the course of the three attacks.
Rackspace and Rackshack, now known as EV1Servers, were the victim of DDoS attacks in August.
In recent months, a diversified range of companies have been targeted for DDoS attacks, including Web hosting companies, Netcraft said.

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