What's worse for a website hosting company: getting taken down by hackers, or failing to properly configure your network, sparking downtime and lost revenue for customers? . The CEO of website hosting service Go Daddy has said that the company's six-hour outage Monday had nothing to do with a hacktivist, despite a hacker having claimed credit for launching a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that scuttled the Go Daddy network. The link for this article located at Information Week is no longer available. . Investigating GoDaddy's service interruption: Misfortune or DDoS strike? Examination of the extended outage and effects on users.. GoDaddy Outage, DDoS, Network Configuration, Cyber Incident. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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