The person behind the Twitter account @AnonymousOwn3r took responsibility for the attack and said all of GoDaddy's servers were knocked out with what is known as a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack, in which a site is flooded withShortly after GoDaddy's services stopped working Tuesday, Twitter user @AnonymousOwn3r, who claimed to be the “security leader of anonymous,” took responsibility for the outage in a video posted on YouTube. @AnonymousOwn3r later stated that theGoDaddy, the Web services company, said that its extensive technical problems on Monday were a result of internal issues, not an attack by a supporter of Anonymous, the loose confederation of rogue hackers. Read more"From government to business, let us assume that everyone understands and agrees on the need for data protection," said security researcher Tony Busseri after the GoDaddy outage. "However, very few organizations have looked at their policies andGoDaddy, the world's largest domain registrar and one of the biggest web hosts, is experiencing major downtime. The main GoDaddy.com domain is unreachab.
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