Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year

Canonical’s websites were disrupted last week by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, months after a larger attack hit the Ubuntu maker’s infrastructure. The company confirmed the attack on October 8 in a post on the Ubuntu Discourse forum. “Canonical’s websites are under a sustained distributed denial of service attack,” the company said, adding that some services might not be reachable at times. The disruption was limited to Canonical’s primary web properties, OMG! Ubuntu reported. These included ubuntu.com, canonical.com, the Ubuntu blog and developer site, and Ubuntu’s security…