GoDaddy Outage: Anonymous Attack Or IT Failure?

What’s worse for a website hosting company: getting taken down by hackers, or failing to properly configure your network, sparking downtime and lost revenue for customers?

The CEO of website hosting service Go Daddy has said that the company’s six-hour outage Monday had nothing to do with a hacktivist, despite a hacker having claimed credit for launching a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that scuttled the Go Daddy network.