Lunarpages hit by DoS attack
Lunarpages.com got nailed by a denial of service (a.k.a. DoS) attack today, resulting in a number of their servers being unavailable. A number of Yellowseed clients are hosted at Lunarpages but, thankfully, only 1 client was affected. Their site was unavailable for about 15 minutes at around 10:30am.
So, what is a Denial of Service attack?
According to the wikipedia,
DoS attacks are often initiated by a virus, which launches the attack from thousands of infected computers spread all over the world at the same moment. Since they come from so many different computers all at once, Denial of Service attacks are extremely diffult to guard against. Nevertheless, the best solution to surviving a DoS attack is prevention. This article has some good information about your web host is doing to prevent them.
Read more at Wikipedia Denial of Service Attack
