Security News > 2011 > May > Some sites struggle to stay up due to Heroku attack

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216795/Some_sites_struggle_to_stay_up_due_to_Heroku_attack By Nancy Gohring IDG News Service May 17, 2011 A potential DDoS attack on Heroku, the Ruby platform-as-a-service provider now owned by Salesforce.com, is creating availability issues for its customers. The problems started on Monday when Heroku reported that a small number of users, primarily those that point a root domain to Heroku via static Internet Protocol addresses, were getting connection errors. Via its status page, Heroku later told customers that it was working closely with its network service provider to mitigate availability issues coming from what it believed was a distributed denial-of-service attack. "The current attack protection procedures have reduced the effects of this attack to intermittent issues," according to the status page. Heroku did not reply to a request for further information. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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