Netcraft: DDoS Attacks Target Prominent Blogs

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Netcraft.

[snip]

Several prominent weblogs have been hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent weeks, as the 
target list for digital attackers continues to broaden. While some of the attacks appear to be politically motivated, 
on Monday a DDoS struck one of the blogosphere's most financially successful bloggers.

Australian Darren Rowse confirmed that an outage Monday on his ProBlogger weblog was caused by a DDoS, but provided no 
details about the attackers or their motives. Rowse gained international attention last year when he revealed that he 
would make more than $100,000 as a solo blogger in 2005, primarily through earnings from Google AdSense advertising and 
commissions from affiliate referral programs.

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More:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/28/ddos_attacks_target_prominent_blogs.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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