Considering the way the hacker described this on twitter and the length of time between his initial taunt and when the sites went down, I suspect more to it than a DDOS. It sounds almost like he had his hand on the rhetorical "switch" and he turned it off.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > > It wont be just 1 guy. > The way this usually works is using computers of innocents infected with > malware, usually referred to as zombies or trojans. > The hacker then uses the infected computers to launch the attack. > So it could easily be thousands of unsuspecting people doing it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352484 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
