Last week, HostingMatters was hit by a large DOS attack - a political blogger was being targeted, and 100 other sites were collateral damage. Now tonight, it looks like LiveJournal and TypePad are being targeted by a DOS attack. Via Glenn Reynolds:

Anil Dash emails: "TypePad appears to be down because I think connectivity to the hosting facility has been knocked out for us as well as everybody else in the facility. I'm just finding out more now, but that's why even the status site is offline, as well as a bunch of other companies' websites. We'll be updating the status.sixapart.com blog ASAP with more info."

I notice a number of sites seem to be hard to reach at the moment. A reader reports that LiveJournal is down, too.

This has the look of a "wave of the future" kind of thing. There have been plenty of reports of botnets being available for hire - this is something we are going to see a lot of.