05-05-2006, 08:14 AM
Quote:Six Apart Ltd, which runs the popular LiveJournal and TypePad blogging services, yesterday became the collateral victim of a very big, very sophisticated denial of service attack mounted by a Russian spammer against an unrelated security company.
The attack, which we can reveal was part of an extortion scam against users of Blue Security Inc's anti-spam software, caused hundreds of bloggers to complain about the downtime, during periods of intermittent blog access.
Six Apart told its millions of bloggers it had experienced "intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com", before resolving the issue in the early hours of Wednesday May 3, 2006...
full article: http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.as...B3B48EF892
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