This morning at approximately 10:00 AM EDT Hosting Matters was hit by a massive DoS attack apparently directed at several conservative blogs hosting with them. Hosting Matters announced in their forum that a specific web site was the target of the attack but did not identify the target by name. The web site in question was isolated from the rest of the Hosting Matters network but the attack still managed to affect several conservative blogs such as Instapundit and LittleGreenFootballs. According to blogger Michelle Malkin, who has been the target of previous DoS attacks but was not affected by this one, the targeted blog was Aaron’s CC. Most of the blogs affected seem to be back up and running now, unlike the original target.
According to reports, the attack originated in Saudi Arabia, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that the perpetrators were Saudi, just that the computers they hacked were situated in Saudi Arabia.
At ServePath we were able to deflect a similar attack thanks to our Riverhead Networks equipment which did an excellent job protecting our network and our customers. At about 8:30 AM PDT we started getting alerts which indicated an inbound flood of over 500,000 packets per second. Fortunately, the Riverhead system took over the incoming flow to the attacked IP and started mitigation pretty much immediately. The attack is still going on as I type this, but seems to finally be tapering off.
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