IMDB, internet’s biggest online movie database website faced a DDOS(Disturbed Denial of Service) Attack. This attack was more evident on the one of the Ips updating the IMDB blog . The website went blunt for while, with images not loading at all. This DDOS Attack time coincided with Amazon going offline for a while, and stayed till Amazon again went online again.
Researchers also stated “The attacker seemed to open multiple connections with the IMDB’s Web server (port 80) while incrementing his source port for every new connection. The attack’s average rate was 3Mbits/sec, certainly not large enough to cause a complete meltdown but probably good enough to delay the legit users. However, there might have been other attacks launched at the same time on IMDB which weren’t in the path of our probes”
via CNET NEWS
