He said DOS attack was right after Jones resigned. If I recall that was just after midnight EST. He said the attack failed. As another posted mentioned, the site was hacked 2 weeks ago, so John Hill probably slapped on some serious security since then. Probably took some time to determine if it was a DOS based on IP address patterns and timing, etc.
Ever read the account Steve Gibson gave in his exploration/infiltration of a zombie net that was used to execute DDOS (Distributed DOS) from vast numbers of compromised broadband connected home PCs? Really interesting; he had some conversations with the ‘operators’ of such nets too (kids mainly).
Wicked-pedia even has info on the DDoS ‘Wicked bot’ that Steve Gibson ‘reverse engineered’ here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WkD_Bot