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March 4, 2014 09:28 pm GMT

Meetups Multi-Day Outage Was Due To A Newer, More Powerful Type Of DDoS Attack

A bit of follow-up onMeetup’s DDoS (denial of service) attackwhich saw the company’s website and accompanying mobile services down for several days: according to the company, this was an example of the increasingly common NTP-based DDoS attack. Explains CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince, who stepped in to help Meetup get back online, NTP-style attacks are a newer choice among criminals… Read More

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