Thursday, September 13, 2012

Go Daddy went black

What happened to my website and email yesterday?

Millions of Go Daddy users are asking the same question. Websites that use the Internet domain registrar and web hosting company Go Daddy were knocked offline yesterday in what appeared to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack executed by a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous.

In a carefully worded statement released Tuesday morning, interim CEO Scott Wagner said the incident -- which lasted from shortly after 10 a.m. PDT to 4 p.m. PDT -- was due to a corruption of network router tables.

"At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised." - Scott Wagner, Go Daddy CEO

As I have said no vendor or company is exempt from down time.!

Until next time

Joe Rossini

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