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Amazon.co.uk and .de are down

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It appears that the UK domain for online retailer Amazon is down. With reports all over Twitter and confirmed by TNW personally, the site does not appear to be responding regardless of the location from which you’re trying to access it.

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Interesting watching everyone immediately crediting 'Anonymous'/Operation Payback for this one...

Anon is somewhat taking credit: http://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/14068450506833922

'Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!'?

we've just included a screenshot of it in the post

Sorry. Anon pulled it, then posted another statement saying that they couldn't confirm for fear of losing their accounts again. Screenshot of the original tweet in the post on TNW.

That link 404s for me. Copy+paste error?

Anon had (sort of) taken credit on twitter, but the message was quickly replaced with "We cant confirm anything because we'll lose our accounts again."

I see.

Now the cynic in me wonders if they're genuinely involved or taking advantage of the fact that everyone basically assumes it's them. ;)

AWS's services in Europe (Dublin, Ireland) seem to be having latency problems:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/#EU_block

Does anyone know how much traffic Anons botnets could generate? Surely it would be nowhere near enough to have any kind of impact on Amazon's cloud infrastructure..

Must be because of something else such as human error and just really bad timing?

Probably just a BGP thing. The Internet is practically duct-taped together, sometimes the glue gets a little soft.

So far, I have seen no evidence for a 'BGP thing'.

Their most public attack tool, 'LOIC' [1], uses HTTP requests to try and exhaust a target website's connection capacity. It's a simple attack and the tool is flawed [2]. They're not trying to deny service at layer 3, they're attacking the layer 7 web app. It's relatively easy to detect these requests and shrug them off.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988045

Last i heard, they had 1500 people running their LOIC app. So, not all that much...

Christmass shopping has begun in earnest?

All European sites now.

Not down from Germany.

It's just come back up.

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