Q&A: Tom Leighton, chief scientist at Akamai He talked about the nature of yesterday's apparent DDoS attack News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan JUNE 16, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Akamai Technologies Inc. said today that the Domain Name System problems it encountered yesterday were the result of a sophisticated and targeted distributed denial-of-service attack against the company. In an interview with Computerworld, Tom Leighton, the company's chief scientist, talked about what happened. What was the nature of the yesterday's attack? It was a name server attack against four of our customers for whom we carry their name servers. Our assumption was this was an attack against Akamai and it was perpetrated by attacking our customer name service infrastructure. It is not impossible that this was a coordinated attack against those four Web sites. Akamai has a lot of key customers, and it could just be a coincidence that the four happened to be Akamai customers. [But] we are assuming it was an attack against Akamai. <snip> http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,93875,00. html?SKC=security-93875