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Expedia, Amazon Suffer In Pre-Christmas DDoS Atack

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However, apart from the big players, several small websites that depend on Amazon for web-hosting also suffered from the attack as it affected Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services. The DNS system appears to be one of the weaker links of websites online.

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DDoS attack hits Amazon and Expedia

(Tech Radar UK)

Web staggers under pre-Christmas DDoS attack

(CNET)

Attack Disrupts Web Sites

(Wall Street Journal)

Christmas hackers take down retailers

(The Iquirer)



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