Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'

ams963 · Mar 27, 2013

The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history.

A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks affecting the wider internet.
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"At a minimum there would have been slowness," Prince said, adding in a blog post that "if the Internet felt a bit more sluggish for you over the last few days in Europe, this may be part of the reason why."

But he said it was unlikely that any ordinary users had been affected by the attack.
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Read in details here and here.

I felt the unusual extreme sluggish internet of my what is already a usual very sluggish internet connection the whole of yesterday. Things are better today but still not up to normal.

siljaline · Mar 27, 2013

See: How whitehats stopped the DDoS attack that knocked Spamhaus offline
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=344011

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