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Revision3 hiccups, Veronica Belmont Twitters

by Elinor Mills
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Web TV network Revision3 had a temporary outage on Tuesday, the company said.

The news was originally reported on Twitter by none other than Gen X Web 2.0 personality and former CNET producer Veronica Belmont, who was recently hired to work on Revision3's Tekzilla program. "Holy DDOS attacks, Batman! Rev3 is under fire!" she wrote.

All I could get out of a Revision3 representative was this statement: "The Revision3 Web site experienced a disruption in service earlier today, but it has been addressed."

But Valleywag reports that Revision3 co-founder David Prager attributed the outage to a possible distributed denial-of-service attack.

Now who would want to attack Revision3?

Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
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by Willbost May 27, 2008 4:27 PM PDT
Patrick Norton twittered it quite a while before Veronica did. http://twitter.com/patricknorton/statuses/821002612
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by ferretboy88 May 27, 2008 6:04 PM PDT
Big deal. Why don't they use a Apple server. They are made perfect and its impossible to attack them. Not
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by jag0 May 28, 2008 1:12 AM PDT
Ignorant much?
by BFeely June 1, 2008 12:54 PM PDT
Turns out MediaDefender DDOSed them.
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by benjaminstraight July 24, 2008 3:56 AM PDT
Just use Apple.
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