Tue, Dec 29 2009 13:07 Don

DDoS Attack Briefly Interrupts Online Holiday Shopping

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a major DNS service provider caused a brief hiccup in online shopping last week at some of the Web's biggest online destinations.

UltraDNS, which counts such giants as Amazon and Wal-Mart among its customers, was DDoS'd after business hours on Dec. 23, according to Amazon Web Services and other reports from victims and news outlets.

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