Slashdot has fallen victim of a distributed denial of service attack. "Thursday just wasn't a good day for geek-culture destination Slashdot. First came the news that Microsoft ordered Slashdot to delete discussions of one of the company's security products. . . .. Slashdot has fallen victim of a distributed denial of service attack. "Thursday just wasn't a good day for geek-culture destination Slashdot. First came the news that Microsoft ordered Slashdot to delete discussions of one of the company's security products. Just as angry Linux users were furiously lashing out at the nastygram from Redmond's legal department, a distributed denial of service attack hit Slashdot, taking it intermittently offline for a few hours." The link for this article located at Wired is no longer available. . The massive influx of traffic from a coordinated attack hits Reddit, exposing fractures within the tech community and reliance on interconnected systems.. Slashdot Attack, Distributed Denial of Service, Security Incident. . Anthony Pell
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