The company behind the NASDAQ stock exchange has said that last week's three-hour outage was partly its own fault, but mostly the fault of rival exchange firm NYSE Arca. The glitch forced Nasdaq to take trading offline on Thursday last week – and thousands of Nasdaq-listed stocks were frozen in place for three hours across the …

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Friday 30th August 2013 16:21 GMT Anonymous Coward

Speeded up (possibly inadvertent) replay attack, says another source

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Saturday 31st August 2013 09:09 GMT John Smith 19

DoS attack by business rival?

Just getting my tinfoil hat out.

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Sunday 1st September 2013 18:30 GMT Anonymous Coward

No NASDAQ, it's entirely your fault. If your system falls over if people are sending too many messages too quickly, you implement rate-limiting...

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