Cyberattack Knocks Million of Blog Offline
May 4th, 2006
About 10 million LiveJournal and TypePad blogs were offline or barely reachable for several hours Tuesday as the result of a massive denial-of-service attack. In a distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack the target is overloaded with requests for information.
The requests come from a large number of hosts, typically compromised computers. The attack morphed as the blog company tried to respond, making it more challenging to deal with.
