{"id":3840,"date":"2014-03-31T23:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2014-03-31T23:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T22:47:38","slug":"european-online-services-suffer-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"European Online Services Suffer DDoS Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this evening when I logged into World Of Warcraft, there was a warning that things may be a tad slow. They were not. When I logged in later this evening, I saw the following message :<\/p>\n

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A couple of my friends asked me if I was lagging, which is a question I sometimes get asked when I’m down the pub, but they were referring to lag and latency in the game. I was fine, they clearly were not as after not responding for a while both disconnected.<\/p>\n

The issue it seems is due to a series of DDoS attacks on some European Online services, but certainly not all. The message from WoW indicated it’s not Blizzard under attack. Some Second Life users in Europe may have had a rough evening too.<\/p>\n

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The nature of such attacks is an unfortunate reality, but when they do occur, it’s good if your virtual world, MMO or ISP can shed some light. Obviously they won’t all know about this, especially when they have global audiences and even people in Europe are happily logging in and out, as I said I’ve had no problems myself this evening.<\/p>\n

Sometimes matters go beyond the control of your service provider, there”s really nothing Blizzard or even Linden Lab if they’re aware of it, can do about it, but it’s good to see some notification about the issue.<\/p>\n

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