[pchelpers] News:AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack

Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 8:07 am
Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned
online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren’t able to do business through
the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay was under a large
scale DDoS attack, according to a notice left by a company
representative. Seven hours of downtime right in the middle of the
Christmas shopping season with millions of businesses using the service
affected, isn’t coincidental. This DDoS attack, just like the recent
DDoS attack again a popular anti-fraud site, may have well been
outsourced.

More here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2240
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