Sun Grid Hit by Network Denial of Service Attack

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

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

Sun Microsystems' Grid, a publicly available computing service, was hit by a denial-of-service network attack on its 
inaugural day, the company said Wednesday. 

To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation service publicly accessible for, for 
example, turning blog entries into podcasts. "It became the focus of a denial of service attack," said Aisling 
MacRunnels, Sun's senior director of utility computing said in an interview Wednesday. 

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More:
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6052968.html

- ferg


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