PirateBay facing DDoS attacks

The most popular file sharing website: The PirateBay was down for some time yesterday due to DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service). The staff of PirateBay said that the website was shut down by them to improve the site against such attacks. Even when the attacks were going on many people were able to access the website from its proxies. DDoS attacks are the one which hit the Demonoid servers earlier this month. But PirateBay staff dealt with them more efficiently & the website was again up & running. There is no proof that the government officials are behind these attacks, but they are one of the few who will benefit from these attacks.

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Demonoid, Wikileaks, KrebsOnSecurity hit by DDoS

Recently Demonoid, Wikileaks & KrebsOnSecurity websites were hit by DDoS attacks. Demonoid never got back & was permanently shut down by authorities. While Wikileaks & KrebsOnSecurity came back online after the DDoS attack was over. This increase in DDoS attacks could be just an increasing random trend or specifically targeted act done by a group of individuals. No one has taken any responsibilities for these DDoS attacks. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is an attack on a web server in which a large number of junk requests from many computers are sent simultaneously to the server thus making it unavailable for real users.

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