UltraDNS suffers attack, Amazon affected
Printed: 2009-12-28
Domain-name service (DNS) provider UltraDNS was targeted having a denial-of-service assault two days prior to Christmas, leaving some last-minute shoppers reportedly unable to link to significant merchants these as Amazon and Wal-Mart for a quick period of time.
Close to four:45 pm PT, UltraDNS noticed "an irregular spike in queries," which it recognized as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack,
Office 2007 Product Key, Allen Goldberg, vice president of company communications at Neustar -- UltraDNS's parent organization -- said in a very statement. The assault only affected Net surfers within the Northern California area and lasted under an hour, the company stated.
"We analyzed the designs and ended up ready to position mitigation measures in place in minutes of identifying the attack," Neustar said from the statement sent to SecurityFocus. "We had everything beneath handle well under an hour."
The attack induced connectivity troubles with Amazon and its World wide web services,
Microsoft Office Professional 2007, according to media reports.
The assault is the second in as many weeks that targeted a critical bit of the Internet's infrastructure,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, the domain name method (DNS). The week just before Christmas, Twitter suffered an outage soon after an attacker with use of the company's DNS account altered its configurations,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, rerouting site visitors to a defacement page.
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Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, please make contact with SecurityFocus.
Posted by: Robert Lemos