DATE:
2004-11
AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA
AFFECTED SITES:
electoral-vote.com
EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Periodic unreachability.
SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a
ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a
TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS
ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Site that provides polling information about the US Presidential race was hit by a long DDoS. It was rather easily dealt with by the existence of and creation of more mirror/backup sites. ISP HostRocket helped by creating six mirrors at electoral-vote3.com - electoral-vote8.com
URLS:
1. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/11/02/mirrors_help_electoralvotecom_blunt_ddos_attacks.html
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