DNS Attack Briefly Takes Down E-Commerce Sites

An attack directed at the DNS provider for some of the Internet's larger e-commerce companies -- including Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Expedia -- took several Internet shopping sites offline two days before Christmas. Neustar, the company that provides DNS services under the UltraDNS brand name, confirmed an attack, taking out sites or rendering them extremely sluggish for about an hour.

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