Sun Microsystems acknowledged that its Grid, a computing service available to the public, was the victim of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on its opening day. Sun decided to open up a text-to-speech translation service for the public to let users test out the Sun Grid. A DoS attack is executed when a perpetrator sends numerous requests for information to a targeted computer system using an invalid IP return address. Sun had little trouble handling the issue once the service was taken down, according to CNET.”]
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