http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/11/24/toronto_police_service_website_down_after_ddos_attack.html
By Nick Westoll
Staff Reporter
Nov 24 2014
The Toronto Police Service website went down on Sunday evening after a
Twitter user threatened to hack it.
According to police, the site was the subject of a Distributed Denial of
Service (DDoS) attack.
Twitter user @AerithTOR claimed responsibility for the attack on the
social networking site.
A DDoS attack floods a website with several requests and if the website’s
server cannot handle the volume of requests, the website crashes.
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