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[geekchick]

[...] [W]e learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster.

Link found via friendsfriends. I completely failed to notice the problem until seeing the news post this morning, having spent most of last night either watching episodes of the new Doctor Who series or with my nose buried in a book. In general I've been spending less time online at home in the evenings and more time reading again.

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[hammercock.livejournal.com]

*reads link*
*jaw drops*

Wow. I am struck dumb. WTFF?

[wolfy.livejournal.com]

I find this oddly funny in a sad sort of way.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

I'm utterly astonished at the defenses of Blue Security. Regardless of the merits (or lack there of) of their method, they redirected a fucking DDoS attack to six apart's servers. In what universe is that cool?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

In general I've been spending less time online at home in the evenings and more time reading again.

How dare you actually try to have a life away from LJ! ;-)

[penk.livejournal.com]

Amusing that both that blog link and Blue Security are both offline now. Mmm, slashdotted. LJ'ed?

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

"sophisticated"? Bah, it's a bunch of DOS zombies. Bleedin' amateurs.