GoDaddy hit by a DDoS attack
Q: Was Wednesday’s GoDaddy.com “outage” an actual DDoS attack, and if so, how severe was it?
A: Wednesday, Go Daddy experienced a mutating type of DDOS attack.
Q: Could you provide us with more details on the DDoS attack itself, was it aimed at at disrupting GoDaddy’s entire infrastructure (email, DNS servers) or was it basically attacking GoDaddy.com’s webserver?
A: This attack was aimed at hosting servers.
A: There was an intermittent service disruption to a small percentage of our hosting customers over a period of hours.
Q: This isn’t the first time that GoDaddy’s been hit with a DDoS attack. Do you attribute this pattern to GoDaddy’s popularity in the sense that unethical competition might be behind the attacks, or perhaps you have a different perspective on who and why attacked the company?
A: It’s our policy not to elaborate on any cyber attack. As you can appreciate, we don’t want to give attackers any information that could benefit them.
- Go through recent DDoS attack incidents - AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack; BBC hit by a DDoS attack; Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack; Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack;
This isn’t the first time that GoDaddy is getting DDoS-ed. Similar attacks took place in 2005, and then again in 2007.
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