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Internet Anonymous Member Sends GoDaddy Offline
Tiffany Kaiser - September 10, 2012 8:40 PM

22 comment(s) - last by mindless1.. on Sep 13 at 12:51 PM

(Source: cltampa.com)

A DDoS attack knocked GoDaddy offline throughout the day

GoDaddy went offline temporarily today due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by a member of Anonymous.

Twitter user @AnonymousOwn3r launched the DDoS attack today against GoDaddy, which is an Internet domain registrar and Web hosting company. A DDoS attack is when a server receives an overwhelming amount of communication that it cannot tend to, and it can be carried out using as little as 50 computers.

Due to the name of the Twitter user, many believed the hacker group Anonymous was collectively to blame. However, Anonymous distanced itself from @AnonymousOwn3r in the following Tweet:

Please redirect your godaddy hate to @AnonymousOwn3r says is the 'leader' of Anonymous. #derp Have #lulz with that.

GoDaddy, aware of the situation earlier today after receiving floods of messages from users, quickly addressed the situation. It worked on the problem throughout the day, apologizing to customers and offering Twitter updates via @GoDaddy. The most recent Twitter update stated that things were getting back to normal around 4:30 p.m. PST:

We're still working. Getting closer to normal. Thanks for all your patience and understanding.

Why did @AnonymousOwn3r carry out the attack? The exact reason remains unknown, but a Twitter update from the user reveals a small piece of the puzzle (misspellings kept for authenticity's sake):

I'm taking godaddy down bacause well i'd like to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now.

GoDaddy hosts over 5 million websites. Such a simple attack really shouldn't have knocked it offline so easily, but more details will likely appear as the investigation rolls on.

Source: The Next Web

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RE: Do you support the stifling of free speech?

By Bad-Karma on 9/11/2012 8:00:43 AM , Rating: 3

For a country whose military is barely beyond the 60's, with very little computer technology integration, a DDoS would be barely noticed.

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RE: Do you support the stifling of free speech?

By mindless1 on 9/13/2012 12:51:54 PM , Rating: 2

The fewer the systems and lower the redundancy, the more damaging it is to cripple them with DDOS, though in this case you wouldn't have those systems on the internet at all.

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