Hacker Claims Old-School Tactic Brought GoDaddy to Its Knees

Someone with the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r made a grab for 15 minutes of fame last week by claiming responsibility for taking down the network for Internet's largest registrar, GoDaddy. GoDaddy discredited that claim. Whether @AnonymousOwn3r tried to take down GoDaddy or not, the method he claimed he used for the attack was an interesting one, and one not commonly used by hackers these days.

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