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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Saudi URL shortener Untiny.com DoSed - September 2009

DATE:
2009-09

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Saudi Arabia

AFFECTED SITES:
untiny.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
500,000 requests over 7 hours (usually gets 20,000/day). Attackers also used API to send requests.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Saudi-based URL shortener.

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

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