14 DAY TRIAL // The website of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity organization that focuses on promoting the study of basic computer science in schools, was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on Tuesday.
“We're being DDOS'd at the moment - very sorry if you can't see the website. If it goes on, we'll try to get some more capacity in tomorrow,” Raspberry Pi representatives wrote on Twitter.
“This is the second attack in a couple of days. We haven't had the blackmail email yet. It's getting plonked when it arrives,” they added.
It appears this was an SYN flood attack which, according to the organization, was “quite hardcore.” The botnet used to launch the attack had around a million nodes.
At the time of writing, the website appears to be working properly.