Six Apart Goes Down

Earlier this week, Typepad, Live Journal, Typekey and all the other Six Apart-hosted sites experienced some prolonged downtime. Was it, as the 6Aers said, a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” or was it more like a total screw-up by a Net security company called Blue Security?

This entry was posted by Kyle Bunch on Thursday, May 4th, 2006 at 12:09 pm and is filed under Publishing, TypePad. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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on May 6, 2006 at 10:58 am LJAB wrote:

At least it wasn’t aimed at them this time, unlike the hacking attack on LiveJournal in January.

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