StormPay Battling Sustained DDoS Attack

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Netcraft.

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Payment gateway StormPay is recovering from a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that has kept its web site 
offline for much of the past two days. The company, which provides online payment processing for thousands of 
e-commerce web sites, came back online Friday after a sustained attack that commenced last weekend. The DDoS on 
StormPay is the latest in a series of attacks on services that allow web merchants to accept credit cards.

The attacks flooded StormPay with up to 6 gigabits a second of data, according to Barrett Lyon, chief technology 
officer of Prolexic Technologies, which specializes in DDoS defense and is working with StormPay to mitigate the 
attack. Lyon said the DDoS involved DNS amplification, using bogus DNS requests to cause Internet nameservers to 
inundate StormPay's web site with traffic.

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More:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/10/payment_gateway_stormpay_battling_sustained_ddos_attack.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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