NPR's Larry Abramson has the story of one man who tried to fight back when his Web site came under attack. LARRY ABRAMSON reporting: Early last month, Steve Gibson was minding his own business, monitoring traffic at grc.com, his Internet business site.
Mr. STEVEN GIBSON (Grc.com): Suddenly without any provocation or reason that I knew of at the time, the lines that traced the activity just dropped straight down like falling off a cliff and just went flat. Essentially we were off the Net. We were just gone.
ABRAMSON: Gibson is a software developer and he assumed that this was a technical glitch, but the record showed it was much more mysterious and nefarious. Grc.com was the victim of an all-out assault.
Mr. GIBSON: We looked at the logs. I analyzed the logs further, and I discovered that exactly 474 computers were simultaneously attacking our site, grc.com, for the express purpose of driving us off the Internet.
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