‘No on Prop 8’ website hit with orchestrated Denial of Service attack
”I haven’t seen the other side condemn the attack, which speaks volumes about the kind of campaign they have run and who they are as people.”
Geoff Kors, a spokesperson for the ”No on Proposition 8″ campaign which seeks to stop the anti-gay marriage voter initiative from passing. His group’s gay-supportive website was hit with a Distributed Denial of Service attack, he says, which cut off public access to the site for some time. A DDoS is an internet-based event that occurs when a malicious party makes use of hundreds or thousands of unwitting “zombie” computers that have been infected with backdoor viruses or other malware. The malicious coordinator then orders all of the zombie computers to make requests of the targeted web server at the same time, thereby overloading the web server with traffic which denies legitimate client requests from getting through. (It should be noted, however, that the No On Prop 8 also appeared to have launched a Google AdSense banner ad campaign at the same time.) (Wired)
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