Freely knocked off line for the second time
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/13/2014 11:00 AM
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RSS aggregator Feedly suffered another DDoS attack which knocked it off line for a second day.
Company officials said: “The ops team has reviewed the attacks and is working on building a second line of defense to neutralize this second attack.”
After a four-hour outage, Feedly was restored at 2:30 p.m. ET, 11:30 a.m. PT.
“The second line of defense is up and wave #2 has been neutralized,” the company said today.
The attackers had demanded payment to stop their DDoS assault, which Feedly refused.
Fred Kost, vice president of security solutions at Ixia stated that: “Although Feedly came out and said they wouldn’t pay, we will likely see an increase in this type of behavior and incentivize more attackers to launch DDoS attacks that have ransom demands attached to them.”
The firm pledged today: “These criminals are determined to try to extort some money and we are determined to say no to extortion and focus on building a stronger Feedly instead.”
Company officials said: “The ops team has reviewed the attacks and is working on building a second line of defense to neutralize this second attack.”
After a four-hour outage, Feedly was restored at 2:30 p.m. ET, 11:30 a.m. PT.
“The second line of defense is up and wave #2 has been neutralized,” the company said today.
The attackers had demanded payment to stop their DDoS assault, which Feedly refused.
Fred Kost, vice president of security solutions at Ixia stated that: “Although Feedly came out and said they wouldn’t pay, we will likely see an increase in this type of behavior and incentivize more attackers to launch DDoS attacks that have ransom demands attached to them.”
The firm pledged today: “These criminals are determined to try to extort some money and we are determined to say no to extortion and focus on building a stronger Feedly instead.”
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