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Update 5:50 a.m. PST: The servers are now down for maintenance, and the attack is over. If further ones happen, we'll announce accordingly. Update 8:15 p.m. PST The DDoS attacks continue. Blizzard ...
Diagram of a DDoS attack. Note how multiple computers are attacking a single computer. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.
An effective attack against DNS might involve targeting top-level domain servers (such as those servicing the .com domain) instead of root name servers. Alternatively, a man-in-the-middle attack or DNS poisoning attack could be used, though they would be more difficult to carry out.
[40] New World Hackers has claimed responsibility in the past for similar attacks targeting sites like BBC and ESPN.com. [41] On October 26, FlashPoint stated that the attack was most likely done by script kiddies. [42] A November 17, 2016, a Forbes article reported that the attack was likely carried out by "an angry gamer". [43]
Hit-and-run DDoS is a type of denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that uses short bursts of high volume attacks in random intervals, spanning a time frame of days or weeks. The purpose of a hit-and-run DDoS is to prevent a user of a service from using that service by bringing down the host server. [1]
January 17: Project Chanology; Anonymous attacks Scientology website servers around the world. Private documents are stolen from Scientology computers and distributed over the Internet. March 7: Around 20 Chinese hackers claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon. They operated from an apartment on a ...
DDoS mitigation is a set of network management techniques and/or tools for resisting or mitigating the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on networks attached to the Internet by protecting the target and relay networks.
Cube World is an action role-playing game ... and World of Warcraft as ... the game's download server suffered a DDoS attack, an unexpected event which ...