It was supposed to the 'interview of the century', but former U.S. President Donald Trump's interview with Elon Musk was marred by technical glitches.
People were unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform.
Musk said that X was going through a massive DDoS attack that could lead to limited live listeners during the interview. He promised to "post the unedited audio immediately".
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a common technique used to temporarily bring down websites. It is not the same as hacking into a website.
These are well-orchestrated attacks on Web servers of a website and on the domain name servers. The idea is to flood the servers with a huge number of requests which can lead to a temporary outage of the website or a shutdown of the servers.
Once this is accomplished, users can be redirected to an intermediate page, where often the perpetrators of these attacks post their messages explaining the reason for why the website has been targeted.
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10 сен 2024
