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Published Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 | 11:52 a.m.
Updated Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 | 9:53 p.m.
Four Greenspun Media Group websites -- lasvegassun.com, lasvegasweekly.com, vegasinc.com and vegasdeluxe.com -- were temporarily disabled or compromised for several hours Friday night into Saturday morning, the results of a cyberattack that effectively overwhelmed servers that maintain the online media sites. Those who did gain access may have noticed that content hadn't been updated in some cases. Later, after those issues had been resolved, some users were involuntarily redirected from one site to another — for example, trying to access the Sun site and winding up at the Weekly site. This is the result of a cyberattack known as “Distributed Denial ...
Conservative funny business?
Thanks for the update.
Good luck on finding the culprit.
Let them reap what they've sown.
I never noticed. Sorry.
Liberal funny business?
Independent funny business?
Now I see why I could not access the site early in the morning. I find it disturbing that someone would try such a terroristic tactic to quiet the site. There are certain things that are inviolable in the United States; an important one of them being freedom of speech. I normally disagree with the Sun's "speech" but feel free to refute it with speech of my own, as do many other posters on the site. In this instance, whether we are left, right or just don't give damn, I believe the vast majority of us can agree that's a much better way than to try and stifle free speech.
Find and prosecute.
Glad that the Sun fixed the problem. Hopefully the disruption caused some commenters on this site to take their rotten business to a media outlet that's more in line with their extremist right-wing views, such as the LVRJ.
I smell a Sherm, I'm calling Harry Reid's office Monday ... we need to stop the assault on the First Amendment.
This is a much more serious problem than most people realize. A lot of this is coming in from Asia and from the Middle East. The internet framework will have to change in the future to prevent these attacks.
In some ways it is unfortunate that victims of various attacks can no longer legally take steps to extract revenge in ways that were common back at the beginning.
"Mail bombs" were a common response, as was reverse-cracking. Although it might be satisfying to take down an attacker's system, I do not suggest that anyone do this since you will now face the same criminal charges as your attacker does.
I hope the Sun's provider gets on the ball and helps with defense against this in the future. There is nothing that can be done to prevent such an attack, but steps can be taken at the ISP level to mitigate it.