Distributed DoS Attack Affects Slashdot Website Performance

Although some readers credited the shutdown to an ironic reverse "slashdot effect" caused by the crush of a linking news article, Wired News reporter Declan McCullagh quoted sources at the website blaming a distributed denial of service attack for the . . . Although some readers credited the shutdown to an ironic reverse "slashdot effect" caused by the crush of a linking news article, Wired News reporter Declan McCullagh quoted sources at the website blaming a distributed denial of service attack for the mess. Such attacks were responsible for a rash of high-profile site shutdowns earlier in the year. On Friday morning, the site servers were still experiencing problems.

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