Flood of donations crashes charity website The website of the charity Help for Heroes crashed after it was deluged with thousands of donations.
"If you visit the webpage, and do not have JavaScript disabled, you will instantly, without user interaction, begin to flood a website of Anonymous's choice with unwanted traffic, helping to perpetuate a DDoS attack".
"If you visit the webpage, and do not have Javascript disabled, you will instantly, without user interaction, begin to flood a website of Anonymous's choice with unwanted traffic, helping to perpetuate a DDoS attack," it said.
That doesn't seem to have worked, and the site says that it is now under a distributed denial of service attack, where users send a flood of requests to a website to take it down.
That doesn't necessarily mean a flood of traffic to the Tout website, by the way.
Albanian websites chronicle the flood of Kosovar refugees.
Compromised machines can then be linked up to form "botnets" under external control, which are used to send spam e-mails or disable websites with a flood of bogus requests.
There is a lengthy list of the properties that are included or excluded on the Flood Re website.
The Sun's Page 3 website has enjoyed a flood of traffic since the newspaper stopped publishing its daily pictures of bare-breasted women.
Glastonbury tickets have sold out in a record time of just 1 hour and 40 minutes after thousands of fans flooded the website and phone lines.
