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Demonoid Busted By Local Authorities Following Massive DDoS Attack
Last week, we reported that popular private torrent site Demonoid was hit by a massive DDoS attack and subsequently out of commission for over a week. The length of the outage, and the fact that the address stopped pointing anywhere rather than displaying some kind of outage message, caused speculation that the venerable site may be down for good. Unfortunately, Demonoid's demise may not be speculation any longer, as word broke that Ukrainian authorities shut down the site.
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GitHub hit by DDoS attack second day in a row
GitHub is having one hell of a week, with four outages in five days. The social coding site is currently being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack,... Read Post
Pirate Bay, Torrent Sites Temporarily Crippled By DDoS Attack
The Pirate Bay and a handful of other torrent sites were temporarily shut down by a DDoS attack on Tuesday, according to TorrentFreak. A Twitter user who was reportedly denied an invitation to one of the sites decided to take his or... Read Post
GitHub Hit With Another DDoS Attack, Second In Two Days, And “Major Service Outage”
Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been interrupted for over an hour in what started as a "major service outage" because of a "brief DDoS attack." This is the second DDoS attack in as many days. Yesterday, GitHub also reporte... Read Post