GoDaddy: We Were Not Attacked, It Was a Server Problem
Yesterday Anonymous is took responsibility for knocking major web host and GoDaddy offline, causing a wave of associated sites to go down for the count as well. GoDaddy, which hosts more than 5 million sites, was believed to be attacked for publicly supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) earlier this year. "By using/supporting GoDaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet," wrote AnonOpsLegion via Twitter on Monday. However, it seems GoDaddy is denying that anonymous is behind yesterday's attack. In fact, according to GoDaddy, there was no attack at all.
A statement on GoDaddy's website states that the outage in service was not caused by "external influences." GoDaddy goes on to specify that it wasn't a hack or a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).
"We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables," CEO Scott Wagner said in a statement. "Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again."
Regarding GoDaddy's claims that it wasn't hacked, Anonymous security leader Own3r says the company's denial is a ploy to save face. "Whooa @godaddy is denying that it was hacked by me! They don't wanna show their cybersecurity is bad this way they would lose customers!" he tweeted. Own3r says it's only a matter of time before GoDaddy is hacked again.

Very true, I learned that real quick when I worked in their customer care dept. That and they need to offer better salary and benefits if they expect to hire (and for that matter retain) 'IT Staff'.
That "is" and the "and" shouldn't be there. The "and" also gives the impression that there's a word missing rather than an extra "and".
On topic:
Any network admins out there, can you describe what would need to be done to hack a system and do something like this? It seems like if it was an attack, it was more complex than the average script kiddie can manage and the response on twitter doesn't seem how someone who's better than a script kiddie would word a response.
EDIT: added another mistake that was made in the article.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence."
Using a DDOS, which is the only thing Anonymous can seem to do, to bring down that many websites is extremely difficult. Screwing up routing tables and killing websites, now that's easy.
Any sufficiently shocking display of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Very true, I learned that real quick when I worked in their customer care dept. That and they need to offer better salary and benefits if they expect to hire (and for that matter retain) 'IT Staff'.
You can use a server as a router. Don't know if that's what they do, but it can be done.
go daddy paid hosting servers have hundreds of websites on them each (thousands)???
how many would have to be hit in order to take down the # of sites that went offline?
also, since those servers are already over stressed with the # of sites on them how difficult would it be to overload them?
honest questions because I don't know
Who is editing these news posts? That sentence just makes my head hurt.
how many would have to be hit in order to take down the # of sites that went offline?
also, since those servers are already over stressed with the # of sites on them how difficult would it be to overload them?
honest questions because I don't know
According to godaddy, they messed up their routing tables. It wouldn't be an issue of overloading servers. It's like this --
If router A is directed router B
And router B is directed to router C
Traffic will flow from A to C
Now let's same the entry became corrupted or (more likely) someone made an error.
If router A is directed to router B
And router B is directed to router A
Traffic will not flow from A to C
That's a simplified view, but that's what they're saying happened, and it's very plausible that's what did happen. It's more likely that a careless sys admin committed a bad routing entry than anonymous DDoSed godaddy.
That suggestion would've been useful awhile ago.
There's a reason there's a website called, "No Daddy".