DDoS attacks knock Feedly offline for second day running

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249064/DDoS_attacks_knock_Feedly_offline_for_second_day_running

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
June 12, 2014

RSS aggregator Feedly today went dark for the second time in two days as 
another wave of distributed-denial-of service (DDoS) attacks knocked it 
offline.

At approximately 10:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. PT), Feedly acknowledged that it 
had again been targeted by cyber criminals, who seem bent on crippling the 
RSS provider.

"The ops team has reviewed the attacks and is working on building a second 
line of defense to neutralize this second attack," said company officials, 
including Edwin Khodabakchian, Feedly CEO, in a brief status update on the 
firm's blog.

After a four-hour outage, Feedly was restored at 2:30 p.m. ET, 11:30 a.m. 
PT.

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