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Spamhaus repels DDoS attack |
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Sunday, 24 September 2006 |
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Spamhaus, the leading anti-spam organisation, has restored its site and services to normal after a distributed denial of service attack rendered its site temporarily inaccessible for several hours on Monday.
The attack, launched from a botnet of compromised Windows PCs, witnessed a huge surge in spurious traffic to Spamhaus's web servers from 0900 BST until around 1400 BST. Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus Project, explained that the site was restored to normal operation after technicians were able to filter (null route) attack traffic. It's not immediately clear who launched the attack, which is far from unprecedented.
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