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California Internet Companies Targeted By Denial Of Service Threats

Calendar Aug 29, 2000 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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At least two local Internet service companies have fallen prey recently to the same destructive pranks that brought behemoth Web sites such as search engine Yahoo!, online book retailer Amazon.com and CNN.com to their knees back in February. Linkline Communications . . . At least two local Internet service companies have fallen prey recently to the same destructive pranks that brought behemoth Web sites such as search engine Yahoo!, online book retailer Amazon.com and CNN.com to their knees back in February. Linkline Communications Inc., a Mira Loma company that provides Web site hosting and Internet access to several thousand customers, had its high-speed and dial-up Internet operations interrupted for 53 minutes on Aug. 10 from a so-called denial of service attack.

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