DDoS attack targets Femsplain on International Women's Day
Feminist blog Femsplain was taken offline earlier today by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to the site’s founder, Amber Gordon. She tells The Verge that the site was offline for roughly three hours before service returned intermittently late Sunday afternoon on the East Coast. The timing seems far from random: today is International Women’s Day.
This is what a DDoS attack looks like in case you were wondering. pic.twitter.com/0xS9KzvGqn
— Amber (@missambear) March 8, 2015
In a tweet, Gordon — best known online as @missambear — shared a screenshot showing the massive influx of traffic from the DDoS attack. Such attacks overwhelm the servers that host websites with a avalanche of requests.
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Source:: The Verge
