CNN Site Bears the Brunt of Chinese Attackers

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The CNN News website has twice been affected since an earlier distributed denial of service attack last Thursday. CNN fixed Thursday's attack by limiting the number of users who could access the site from specific geographical areas.
 
Subsequently, an attack was purportedly organisedto start on Saturday 19th April, but cancelled.However, our performance monitoring graph shows CNN's website suffereddowntime within a 3 hour period on Sunday morning, followed by otheranomalous activity on Monday morning, where response times were greatlyinflated.
Netcraft is continuing to monitor the CNN News website. Live uptime graphs can be viewed here.