03-30-2011, 07:26 AM
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BBC website crashes for an hour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12904586
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Malicious attack
Some users, writing online, have speculated that the site had been subject to a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Typically, hackers will crash a website's servers by swamping it with requests, usually from computers that have been hijacked using malicious software.
The BBC said that, at this stage, there was no indication that the failure had been caused by such an attack.
Paul Mutton, a security researcher at Netcraft, said that traffic patterns around the BBC site immediately before and after the outage suggested that it was down to a technical failure.
"It did not look like a DDoS. It was a very abrupt outage," he explained.
"Usually there will be an increase in request times [to a website] before a DDoS. Traffic patterns to the BBC site were not typical of an attack," said Mr Mutton.
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