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 The man in the dark  Group: General Admin Posts: 15471 Joined: 10-August 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 9  |
QUOTE Swedish police slammed by DDoS attack
Motive for site attacks not yet known Shaun Nichols in San Francisco V3.co.uk, 31 Oct 2009 A denial of service attack crippled the web site for Sweden's police administration earlier this week. The attacks flooded the site with information requests, causing the servers to crash and take the site offline. According to Swedish news site The Local, at its peak the attack caused traffic to spike from 800 requests per second to more than 400,000 requests per second. In addition to crippling the police site, the attack also took down as many as 40 media sites also being hosted by service provider Basefarm. The Local reported that as of Friday evening Swedish time, neither the hosting firm nor police investigators knew who was behind the attacks or their motive for taking the sites down. More: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2252317/swedis...ce-slammed-ddos --------------------  Microsoft® MVP Consumer Security 2007 - 2009 Member of ASAP A.S.A.P-Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals |
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