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Did you actually READ that article? This has already been gone over before..

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The BBC said that, at this stage, there was no indication that the failure had been caused by such an attack.

Paul Mutton, a security researcher at Netcraft, said that traffic patterns around the BBC site immediately before and after the outage suggested that it was down to a technical failure.

"It did not look like a DDoS. It was a very abrupt outage," he explained.

"Usually there will be an increase in request times [to a website] before a DDoS. Traffic patterns to the BBC site were not typical of an attack," said Mr Mutton.