UltraDNS Suffers DNS DDoS Attack

DNS outage affects a number of UltraDNS customers

March 31, 2009 - Attackers launched a distributed denial of service attack against the DNS servers used in NeuStar's UltraDNS managed DNS service, causing service disruptions for a number of UltraDNS customers, according to a NeuStar official. The DNS DDoS attack caused service outages of a few hours.

According to a blog by UltraDNS competitor DynDNS, the outage affected Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, advertising.com and Petco.com.

Source: NetworkWorld

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