Comments on: Denial Of Service Attacks http://shloky.com/?p=213 I'm Shlok Vaidya. I'm the Director of Product Management at Neoplat. We build the tools that help governments, corporations, and communities adapt to an increasingly uncertain future. This is an outlet for my thinking on warfare, resiliency, and the future. I can be easily contacted at shlok@webuildplatforms.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:25:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: 8342 - Q has the lowdown on what happened to LJ recently - « The Scotto Grotto http://shloky.com/?p=213&cpage=1#comment-33360 8342 - Q has the lowdown on what happened to LJ recently - « The Scotto Grotto Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:44:47 +0000 http://www.shloky.com/?p=213#comment-33360 [...] There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background. [...] [...] There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background. [...]

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