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Re: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:50:03 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:"It's exceeding all our expectations," said spokeswoman Abby Lunardini, who didn't have specific figures on how many bookings were made by day's end. She said the airline's Web site began to slow around noon, making it difficult for users to purchase tickets online. The airline directed users to call its toll-free number.Are "hackers" just the fall guy for the airline IT department failing to provide enough server capacity to handle the "flash crowd" effect?
Apparently so. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGoR/4q1pz9mNUZTMRAqfXAJ9S82qSyKo8wDyrLVdfA5/zRqp2MQCgqg+d WFDT0tYIJPKsbNE0nLbglF8= =p73M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Paul Ferguson (Jul 19)
- RE: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Alex Eckelberry (Jul 19)
- Re: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Sean Donelan (Jul 20)
- Re: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Paul Ferguson (Jul 19)
- RE: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Alex Eckelberry (Jul 19)
- Re: Hackers Trip Up Virgin America's First Day of Ticketing Paul Ferguson (Jul 20)