Books Aren't Dead

The largest book Internet shop Amazon in day of Christmas has sold more than electronic books Kindle, than paper books. Itself Kindle became the most bought goods on "Amazon.com", it is informed in the company press release.

Celebration of e-books

However, as informs Businessinsider.com, the celebration of e-books is necessary paper this concrete day is connected by that many have received Kindle in a gift for Christmas, and at once have begun to order the electronic version of this book.

DDoS-attacks have not prevented

Let's remind, that record sales managed to achieve despite traditional Christmas DDoS-attacks. Besides the largest online shop, on the eve of Christmas sites Wal-Mart, Salesforce.com and travel agency Expedia.com hardly worked.

DDoS-attack has put out of action Amazon

Large Internet platforms, such as Amazon, Expedia.com, Salesforce.com and Walmart.com have appeared on December, 23rd are inaccessible owing to DDoS-attack of DNS-server UltraDNS by unknown malefactors. About it writes Data Center Knowledge.

The DNS-server is attacked!

The DNS-server is responsible for transformation of a domain name to the Internet address. In case the DNS-server works under the big loading, the inquiry can not be carried out or out very long, braking transition to loading of the site.

By the evening on December, 23rd to the USA site Amazon was loaded very slowly, and hosting Amazon S3 worked with failures, writes Cnet news. Though in Amazon asserted, that access is complicated only at the western coast USA, representatives Salesforce.com informed on inaccessibility of their site worldwide.

DDoS-attack on Network Solutions

It not the first case when because of malfunctions on a DNS-server out of operation there is a set of Internet resources. So, hundred thousand sites have slowed down at some o'clock the work on January, 23rd when DDoS-attack to company Network Solutions DNS-server has been organised. On April, 1st, 2009 DDoS-attack has put out of action server UltraDNS.

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