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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Arabcrunch.com (USA) DDoSed - April 2010

DATE:
2010-04

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA

AFFECTED SITES:
arabcrunch.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Down for 4 days, some data loss.

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
HTTP attack

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Not many details. Two Arabic/Islamic websites attacked and taken offline. Apparently a very simple attack, but took a while for the sites to be reinstated.

URLS:
1. http://thenextweb.com/me/2010/04/16/regional-blogs-networks-massive-ddos-attacks/
2. http://arabcrunch.com/2010/04/breaking-emerging-while-still-under-ddos-attack-arabcrunch-com-is-back-to-serve-the-community-thanks-to-spirula-systems.html
3. http://www.spirulasystems.com/news/spirula-systems-defends-ddos-attack-arabcrunch

Posted by  DoSWatch at 11:45 PM
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