Revision3 blames anti-piracy firm for DOS attack

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 05/29/2008 - 11:49am

Revision3 has investigated the denial of service attack that kept it offline over the Memorial Day weekend and has concluded that anti-piracy group MediaDefender is to blame.

In a blog post on Thursday morning, Revision3 Chief Executive Jim Louderback writes that much of the traffic that bombarded the Web TV ...



 

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