04/01/09
UltraDNS service knocked offline by attack
http://www.networkworld.com/nldailynewsam189567
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan
NeuStar confirmed that its UltraDNS managed DNS service was
knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a
distributed denial of service attack.Read full story
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