IMDB victim of denial-of-service attack

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On Friday, Internet movie database IMDB fell victim to a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that coincided with Amazon.com being offline, says one researcher.

Soups Ranjan, a senior member of the technical staff of network protection and management company Narus, said in a blog that he found evidence that at least one of the IP addresses used by IMDB fell under a sustained DDoS attack between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. PDT Friday.

"My attempt to load the IMDB page via a direct connection to the Web server under attack (http://72.21.206.70/) doesn't load the images at all. It becomes interesting when you realize that IMDB seems to be hosted using Amazon Web Service (AWS) since this IP-address is registered as belonging to Amazon."

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