Does a recent tweet indicate Amazon, Europe has been hit with a DDoS attack?
“A. Europe down”
UPDATE: The Guardian reports that MasterCard and Amazon were down today, although there is some confusion as to whether Amazon’s outage was the result of a DDoS attack. Also, Gawker, has given up its entire database to a ‘brute force’ attack.
Also today, in a separate incident, the gossip website Gawker announced that its encrypted database of 1.5 million user names and passwords used for commenting had been cracked by a “brute-force” attack. Although Gawker does not collect credit card details, the risk is that those of its users who use the same password and name on other sites could see their identities compromised.
