3 outlets·4 reports
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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Ubuntu’s services have been offline after a sustained, cross-border distributed-denial-of-service attack, with its servers taken down for an extended period. The outage has persisted for more than a day, exceeding fifteen hours of continuous disruption across the company’s infrastructure.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h
- TechCrunch·Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
- Hacker News·Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
- TechMeme·Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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