Web site administrators are being advised by the FBI's cybercrime division to be extra vigilant for evidence of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that have recently hit Web sites. In an advisory issued this weekend by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center . . .
Web site administrators are being advised by the FBI's cybercrime division to be extra vigilant for evidence of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that have recently hit Web sites. In an advisory issued this weekend by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the agency said it has received information about "ongoing attempts to disrupt Web access to several sites."

The NIPC advisory came after a DDOS attack on the White House Web site on Friday (see story). That attack lasted from about 8 a.m. EDT to about 11:15 a.m., causing so many automated requests for information that the servers were overloaded.

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