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Old 09-04-2011, 09:58 PM
 
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Major Websites Shutdown on Sept 4 Worldwide Hacker Day Pronouncement

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The extent of the cyber attack has not been determined as reports of other downed sites continue.

Attacks appear to be DNS redirections.
ups.com which is one of the targets results in:
Service Unavailable - DNS failure
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
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Old 09-04-2011, 10:18 PM
 
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At least Slashdot still works...

Thanks for the heads up.
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Old 09-05-2011, 12:03 PM
 
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That explains why I couldn't get to ups last night. And it might explain why, at times, the net was really slow yesterday.
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Old 09-05-2011, 09:02 PM
 
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Im glad things are better now
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