It isn’t the first time that 4Chan has gone down and it won’t be the last, but this one is special. There were 3 consecutive days with very little uptime, something that the photo-sharing, meme-creating website has never experienced. A massive DDoS is to blame. For it to keep the site down for this long,… Continue reading 4Chan is back up after 3 day DDoS attack
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DDoS takes down UK’s Russian embassy website before PM visit to Moscow
It has been 5 years since a British leader has visited Moscow. On the eve of the first visit since a Kremlin critic was killed in London, the website for the Russian Embassy in London was attacked by a distributed denial of service attack. British Prime Minister David Cameron has been very vocal in the… Continue reading DDoS takes down UK’s Russian embassy website before PM visit to Moscow