Mystery Android app takes down the National Weather Service site

Posted by jimlynch on Aug 26, 2014 5:32 PM EDT
ITworld; By Jim Lynch
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In today's Android roundup: An unknown Android app took down the NWS site yesterday. Plus: Android's march to mobile dominance rolls on, and how can smartphones get better?

I checked the NWS site and Akamai is now filtering the problem traffic. But what strikes me as odd about the whole affair is the lack of such a filter in the first place. Obviously the National Weather Service site is an important source of weather information, so you'd think that they would have anticipated something like this and acted preemptively to prevent it.

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