I haven’t been able to get onto Amazon.com in the last hour. Is this another hacker attack along the lines of what happened to Yahoo! and buy.com? What happens in an attack like this, and what can be done to prevent it.
I really hope somebody catches these assholes soon…
I heard on CNN that those hackers got to eBay today. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got to Amazon.com right about now.
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Well, I checked the site, Edward J Cunningham, and http://www.amazon.com works…
…for now 
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You’re right. They seem to be down. Amazing.
It’s been confirmed. Looks like so far, the same group has hit Yahoo, eBay, Buy.com, CNN and Amazon. Here’s a story:
http://cnnfn.com/2000/02/08/technology/yahoo/
Amazon seems to be back up now; I was there a few minutes ago. But eBay is still down. I tried to check on an auction and can’t get in. I checked CNN (remembering Yahoo yesterday) and they are confirming the attack.
“Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.”
Speaking of such things, is anyone else having a problem getting through to hotmail?
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.
As of about 8:20 EST, I got into my Hotmail account without a hitch. However, that’s often more rare than not. Maybe the hackers got in and actually made it work for once!
Its not really a hacker type of thing. They are just requesting information at some alarming rate. They probably open like 100 accesses per second or something & that slows things. Did it at Yahoo this week too.
I have a message board. Sometimes people run something like that on it. They run a program that tries to ‘writes’ dozens of times all at once. Causes the board to blow.
From CNN, this is what is going on…
“Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.”
Attention
If only they would hit DoubleClick!!
Probably just some high schoolers at it again.
Maybe it was gl0worm…
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Check this article on ZDNet for more info on the attacks. http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4444.html
yeah, it is a denial of service attack, about 3-6 people did it. They hacked computers such in high bandwith computers like in an university and installed programs that sent many requests to those sites causing them to slow down or overflow. Check http://www.antionline.com for a more in depth.
The (2/21) issue of Newsweek which just arrived at my house today has a great cartoon on page 17. Alan Greenspan is typing on a PC, surrounded by packages of Ding-Dongs ahd ho-Hos and a newspaper headlined “Hacker Slows Trading on Wall Street”, thinking “they’ll never suspect a thing…”.