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WHID 2011-63: LiveJournal under DDoS attack right now

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Mon, Apr 25, 2011 1:14 PM

*Entry Title: *WHID 2011-63: LiveJournal under DDoS attack right now
*WHID ID: *2011-63
*Date Occurred: *April 6, 2011
*Attack Method: *Denial of Service
*Application Weakness: *Insufficient Anti-automation
*Outcome: *Downtime
*Attacked Entity Field: *Blogs
*Attacked Entity Geography: *
*Incident Description: *LiveJournal Russian blog platform again stopped
working some 35-40 minutes ago. This is already the 3rd hack attack over the
past two weeks.
Popular Russian blogger and SUP expert Roustem Adagamov tweeted that
LiveJournal is under DDoS attack right now.
*Mass Attack: *No
*Reference: *
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/it_telecom/news/66359/LiveJournal_under_DDoS_attack_right_now
Attack Source Geography:

*Entry Title: *WHID 2011-63: LiveJournal under DDoS attack right now *WHID ID: *2011-63 *Date Occurred: *April 6, 2011 *Attack Method: *Denial of Service *Application Weakness: *Insufficient Anti-automation *Outcome: *Downtime *Attacked Entity Field: *Blogs *Attacked Entity Geography: * *Incident Description: *LiveJournal Russian blog platform again stopped working some 35-40 minutes ago. This is already the 3rd hack attack over the past two weeks. Popular Russian blogger and SUP expert Roustem Adagamov tweeted that LiveJournal is under DDoS attack right now. *Mass Attack: *No *Reference: * http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/it_telecom/news/66359/LiveJournal_under_DDoS_attack_right_now *Attack Source Geography:*