VIMEO Under attack:

What is wrong with vimeo?
From vimeo.com:

Sorry for the downtime, let us explain!

Hi friends!
On Friday, Vimeo fell victim to a denial-of-service attack (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) that caused the site to be unavailable to our members and visitors. This downtime affected only Vimeo.com — all embedded videos remained playable and working properly.
Our entire team worked as quickly as possibly to get things back up and running, and, as of right now, the site is online and stabilizing well. It’s sitting upright and eating solid bits of data already!
You can rest assured that no user data was compromised, and NONE of your content (even all those weird videos you uploaded that one night) was lost or affected in any way.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. Things like this are a major bummer and not very fun to deal with. Thanks so much for bearing with us during this attack.
Love,
Vimeo

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In case of site instability, please see our status page: status.vimeo.com/

######## UPDATE: February 2 at 10:16AM ########
As a result of complications arising from yesterday's attacks, we are currently investigating an issue which is affecting the reliability of the on-site player for logged-in users. Please hang tight while we work on bringing things back to normal.
######## UPDATE: February 1 at 8:42PM ########
Vimeo's API and vimeopro.com are both back up and fully operational now. For PRO Portfolios and VODs using custom domains, you may still have issues loading your site, please read more regarding this here: vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:114114
######## UPDATE: February 1 at 6:36PM ########
Vimeo.com and the Vimeo player are looking stable again, and we're actively monitoring the situation.
Our API 3.0 is still down, as well as vimeopro.com, which hosts our PRO Portfolios. We're actively working on a resolution and hope to have these back up soon.
######## UPDATE: February 1 at 5:56PM ########
Some users may experience slow response times for page loads as well as the on-site and embedded player. We are investigating. Our API is currently down and we're working to bring it back online.
######## UPDATE: February 1 at 4:25PM ########
Some users may experience slow response times for the on-site and embedded player. We are investigating this issue.
######## UPDATE: February 1 at 3:51PM ########
The player is now up and running, and we are actively monitoring the situation. Thank you for your patience!
######## UPDATE: February 1 at 1:33PM ########
The DDoS attacks are currently causing instability for the Vimeo on-site and embedded player. We're working as quickly as possible to restore stability. Thanks again for your patience.
######## UPDATE: February 1 ########
The DDoS are continuing, causing intermittent instability. Our developers are working hard to recover from the attacks and stabilize the site. Thanks for your support and patience, and apologies for the inconvenience.
######## Original Post: January 31 ########
Hi friends!
On Friday, Vimeo fell victim to a denial-of-service attack (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) that caused the site to be unavailable to our members and visitors. This downtime affected only Vimeo.com — all embedded videos remained playable and working properly.
Our entire team worked as quickly as possibly to get things back up and running, and, as of right now, the site is online and stabilizing well. It’s sitting upright and eating solid bits of data already!
You can rest assured that no user data was compromised, and NONE of your content (even all those weird videos you uploaded that one night) was lost or affected in any way.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. Things like this are a major bummer and not very fun to deal with. Thanks so much for bearing with us during this attack.
Love,
Vimeo

from The Telegraph

Web slows under 'biggest attack ever'

Millions of people around the world have been affected by slow internet speeds after an unprecedented attack.

Hacking: the risks to internet users aren't going away

A row between two web companies has escalated into the biggest ever online attack Photo: ALAMY

By Matt Warman and agencies

1:41PM GMT 27 Mar 2013

71 Comments

A Dutch web-hosting company caused disruption and the global slowdown of the internet, according to a not-for-profit anti-spam organization.

The interruptions came after Spamhaus, a spam-fighting group based in Geneva, temporarily added the Dutch firm, CyberBunker, to a blacklist that is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam.

Cyberbunker is housed in a five-story former NATO bunker and famously offers its services to any website “except child porn and anything related to terrorism". As such it has often been linked to behaviour that anti-spam blacklist compilers have condemend.

It retaliated with a huge 'denial of service attack'. These work by trying to make a network unavailable to its intended users,overloading a server with coordinated requests to access it. At one point, 300 billion bits per second were being sent by a network of computers, making this the biggest attack ever.

The attack was particularly potent because it exploited the 'domain name system', which acts like the telephone directory of the internet and are used every time a web address is entered into a computer.

Patrick Gilmore, of digital content provider Akamai Networks told the New York Times that Cyberbunker did not believe spamming users was wrong. “These guys are just mad. To be frank, they got caught," he alleged. "They think they should be allowed to spam.”
Calling the disruptions “one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet,” the New York Times reported today that millions of ordinary web users have experienced delays in services such as Netflix video-streaming service or couldn’t reach a certain website for a short time.
“The size of the attack hurt some very large networks and internet exchange points such as the London Internet Exchange,” John Reid, a spokesman for Spamhaus, said in an e-mailed response to questions by Bloomberg News. “It could be thousands, it could be millions. Due to our global infrastructure, the attackers target places all over the world.”
Spamhaus was targeted with a so-called distributed denial of service attack on the evening of March 15, Reid said.
“The only thing we would like to say is that we do not, and never have, sent any spam,” Cyberbunker spokesman Jordan Robson said in an e-mail.
Sven Olaf Kamphuis, an internet activist who told the New York Times he was a spokesman for the attackers, said that Cyberbunker was retaliating against Spamhaus for “abusing their influence” as the gatekeeper of lists of spammers. “Nobody ever deputized Spamhaus to determine what goes and does not go on the Internet,” he claimed. “They worked themselves into that position by pretending to fight spam.”
Such attacks are growing in quantity as well as scale, according to Vitaly Kamluk, chief malware expert of Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team. The two main motives for the disruptions are money through cybercrime and political and social activism, he said.
“This is indeed the largest known DDoS operation,” Kamluk said by e-mail. “Such DDoS attack may affect regular users as well, with network slowdown or total unavailability of certain web resources as typical symptoms.”
Cyberbunker claims that it has resisted a number of 'attacks' by Dutch police attempting to make arrests.