China's Internet hit by biggest cyberattack in its history2013-08-26 09:20 by DanielaTags: DDoS, hackers
Early Sunday morning, China experienced what it is now calling its "largest ever" DDoS attack. According to The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the country's .cn servers went down as a result of the attack, with affects lasting hours for some users. CloudFlare Chief Executive Matthew Prince said the company observed a 32% drop in traffic for the thousands of Chinese domains on the company's network during the attack compared with the same time 24 hours earlier. Today the problems seem to be largely resolved with users once again being able to access Sina's social networking site Weibo and other popular sites without issues, web security and performance company CloudFlare confirmed. Denial of service attacks aren't technically "hacks," since they can be done without breaking into any systems. Typically, DoS attacks overwhelm a website's servers by flooding them with requests. That makes websites unreachable or unresponsive. Read more -here-
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