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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Egyptian filesharing startup Filaty.com DDoSed - September 2009

DATE:
2009-09

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Egypt

AFFECTED SITES:
filaty.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Temporarily offline

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Egyptian file/image sharing startup under attack for days.

URLS:
1. http://arabcrunch.com/2009/09/breaking-arabic-sites-untiny-and-filaty-are-under-dos-attack.html

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