UltraDNS suffers assault,
Windows 7 Activation, Amazon affected
Revealed: 2009-12-28
Domain-name service (DNS) supplier UltraDNS was targeted which has a denial-of-service assault two days just before Xmas,
Office 2007 Keygen, leaving some last-minute buyers reportedly unable to link to significant stores these as Amazon and Wal-Mart for any short time period.
About 4:45 pm PT,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, UltraDNS observed "an abnormal spike in queries," which it discovered as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, Allen Goldberg, vice president of company communications at Neustar -- UltraDNS's mother or father firm -- said in a statement. The attack only affected Web surfers inside the Northern California area and lasted less than an hour, the organization stated.
"We analyzed the designs and were capable to place mitigation actions in place in minutes of identifying the assault," Neustar said from the statement sent to SecurityFocus. "We had everything beneath management properly under an hour."
The attack brought on connectivity troubles with Amazon and its Web services, in accordance to media reports.
The assault will be the 2nd in as several weeks that targeted a crucial piece of the Internet's infrastructure, the domain identify method (DNS). The week just before Xmas, Twitter endured an outage after an attacker with access to the company's DNS account modified its settings,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, rerouting guests to a defacement web page.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, please contact SecurityFocus.
Posted by: Robert Lemos
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