NeuStar DNS DDoS Attack Examination and Response Summary Report

Apr 02, 2009 •

Anthony Pell

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NeuStar, a provider of highly-available DNS services, experienced a coordinated DDoS the other day: "Early this morning, our monitoring systems detected a significant denial of service attack, which affected a small subset of our customers, in some cases for as long as a few hours," the Reston, Va. company said in a statement. "While we continue to investigate the cause, the extent, and the duration of the attack, service was completely restored by 10 a.m. EST."

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