- Jan 24, 2011
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Bleepingcomputer.com was down this morning 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM EST.At its peak, this attack was sending over 4GB of traffic towards Bleepingcomputer.com.
Bleepingcomputer.com said:As some of you may have noticed, Bleepingcomputer.com was down for 2 hours this morning. This was due to a distributed DDOS attack on our web servers. At its peak, this attack was sending over 4GB of traffic towards our site. When our ISP noticed this, they immediately took action and placed the site in their scrubbing service. Unfortunately, there was a snafu on their end and it took the site offline rather than just scrubbing the DDOS attack.
Read more: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/510432/ddos-attack-this-morning-730-am-to-930-am-est/