Sony reportedly has used Amazon Web Services to launch distributed denial of service attacks on sites carrying files stolen from its network. Those attacks apparently involved “hundreds of computers” in Tokyo and Singapore. Amazon reportedly issued a statement denying the claim, but the language it used was vague: “The activity being reported is not currently happening on AWS.” That obviously leaves open the possibility that such activity might have occurred in the past.
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Sony May Have Succumbed to DDoS Temptation
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 15, 2014 11:31 AMSony reportedly has used Amazon Web Services to launch distributed denial of service attacks on sites carrying files stolen from its network. Those attacks apparently involved “hundreds of computers” in Tokyo and Singapore. Amazon reportedly issued a statement denying the claim, but the language it used was vague: “The activity being reported is not currently happening on AWS.” That obviously leaves open the possibility that such activity might have occurred in the past.