Amazon’s website have been going down at an alarming rate over the few days. Apparently those pesky bloggers are pointing to DoS as a possible culprit.
From vnunet:
The company is remaining tight-lipped on what is causing the problems, so speculation is rife in the blogosphere.
One explanation, according to security experts, is that Amazon is suffering a series of denial-of-service attacks.
Amazon’s US website was unavailable for over two hours on Friday, as was the Amazon-operated Internet Movie Database.
A blog posting by Supranamaya Ranjan, at web traffic monitoring firm Narus, claims that the cause is a “network-initiated attack”.
OK, that’s not just some blogger. If the folks at Narus say it’s a network attack, I would put my money on their analysis in a heartbeat. If you recall these are the folks that the US and Chinese governments rely on to monitor traffic. Narus is quite adept at their job.