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Google received requests to Michael Jackson for DDOS-attack

Internet became slow after the death of Michael Jackson. Millions of fans of the King of pop music cause to fall major news sites asking for the death of his idol. Malfunction is not able to avoid «Wikipedia», and Twitter, but the search giant Google took the shaft of Jackson requests for virus attacks.

Millions of fans of Michael Jackson paralyzed the work of the Internet in search of information of his death. The musician died on Friday, 26 June, at 1.36 Moscow time in a hospital in Los Angeles of cardiac arrest.

Google reported DDOS-attack

Google has announced as BBC, that the specialists have taken many inquiries about Michael Jackson for DDOS-attack. With this attack, a large number of computers combined into a bot-network to send the same request to the site, as a result he is overloaded.

Users type in the search bar «Michael Jackson» receive an error message. It contained a warning: «Your request is similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application».

Gabriel streaker Google representative confirmed that since 14.40 till 15.15 PST searchengine do not show results for «Michael Jackson», newspaper reports.

Users also reported that some time was not a news service of Google.

fell media

According to the company Keynote Systems, a review of 30 news portals showed that they are accessible in the average fell from 100 to 86%. The average time needed to load the home page, increased from 4,2 to 8,9 sec.

The most affected site ABCNews.com, which is within two hours of responding only to one request out of ten. Among the other victims – resources of AOL, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and Yahoo.

first reported the hospitalization, then the death of musician portal TMZ.com, which specializes in information about life celebrities. After he «fallen», users have rushed to other sites, triggering a wave of dominoes to overloading of other resources.

People forgot about Iran and pig influenza

At «Wikipedia», thousands of users trying to simultaneously edit a page about Michael Jackson, first reporting on the hospital, and then the death of celebrities. As a result, the site also was unavailable encyclopedia.

blogs and social networks also have been overwhelmed by reports in which the authors have expressed their sorrow and regret at the death of a musician. According to the Statistical company Trendrr, June 25, after noon on a site Twitter mikroblogov recorded 100 thousand messages per hour with tag Michael Jackson. According to the site, its servers have passed since the 66.5 thousand posts.

According to the founder of several Internet projects Ethan Zuckerman, mention the musician found in 15% of all messages Twitter. This is 3 times more than the amount of information about the protests in Iran or pig influenza at the peak of interest in these subjects.