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Bots to blame for Amazon.com outages?
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| What's more, shortly after Amazon technicians restored service after Friday's
| outage, several Register readers reported receiving a new error message that
| explained they were being blocked from Amazon.com because the requests were
| suspected to come from a bot or automatic script. Eventually, the problem was
| corrected.
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| Taken together, the IMDB attack and the false positives may indicate Amazon
| was hit by some sort of automatic script that contributed to the outage.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/09/more_amazon_outages/
Yesterday:
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.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9962676-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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