LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY catvincent)

From LJ Maintenance, with comments here:

"This is an update regarding the previously mentioned DDOS attacks impacting site performance. We've implemented several short term strategies to help mitigate the severity of the attack. While we've tried to handle these attacks with the fewest number of users impacted, there have been, unfortunately, times when the site has been unavailable or slow, and some users have experienced errors when posting.

These are all short term solutions until the attack subsides or until we are able to absorb the traffic. Information you provide us about specific problems posting comments or entries will be processed and used to help us best tweak our mitigation application. Also, these issues are unrelated to the recent suspensions mentioned in news." (My bold. Not sure I believe that.)

(Said previous attack was yesterday - although they suffered another one last Thursday, 25 May, i.e. before the Strikethrough)

Some are muttering that this one may be the result of the Worriers for InNoSense malware. That's just a guess of course. Certainly someone is throwing stuff at SixApart's servers.

More once there's some harder news.