RIAA Web Site Remains Offline
21st March, 2004
The web site of the Recording Industry Association of America remains offline in an outage now approaching five days in duration. The www.riaa.com web site was targeted for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by the MyDoom.F virus. The current outage now exceeds the RIAA site's four-day outage in July 2002, which was attributed to a DDoS.
A dynamically updating graph of the sites targeted for DDoS by various MyDoom variants is available here.
Posted by Rich Miller in Performance
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