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Speculation Expresses Skype Shutdown By Denial-Of-Service Attack
Late Friday August 17th, 2007, Skype stated that user could now begin to use there VOIP service again. The outage affected millions of users and lasted two days. According to user statistics provided by Skype, the number of users connected to the service rose throughout Friday afternoon, from roughly3 million at 12pm to more than 5.6 million shortly after 6:00 p.m. EDT showing Skype’s service was reviving. As user started to reconnect they reported that their connections remained stable. Skype confirmed the outage on Thursday but word on the forums say the trouble started on Wednesday. The eBay company has not confirmed the reason for the outage on saying that is was cause by a weakness in an algorithm within the Skype networking software system. Users, while calmed that the VoIP and instant messaging service was again alive,
continued to blow up the Luxembourg-based company for severing their business
and personal communications.
Speculation that the outage was
caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack or by some previously
planned maintenance that Skype conducted late Tuesday have been regularly
quashed by the company. "No... attack was related to the current sign-on issues
in any way,"
Although speculation arose that the outage was caused by a denial-of-service
attack or some previously planned maintenance that
Skype directed and performed late Tuesday have been regularly
invalidated by the company. "No... attack was related to the current sign-on
issues in any way,"
A user identified as "free skypeout minutes," who alleged to be employed by a
Swedish company already heavily reliant on Skype's for-a-fee services, went
straight
to the point. "All plans to
incorporate Skype into more of our procedures are now on hold indefinitely."
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