The denial of service attack is the largest ever to the anti-spam organization Spamhaus has affect the web access of multiple users in some parts of the world.
According to the AP, Spamhaus, a British company - Swiss remove promotional specialist Viagra, diet pills ... forged from user mailboxes worldwide, suffered a major DDoS attack from mid-May 3/2013.
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Denial of service attacks are making goals (websites, online services) overload that users have difficulty or can not access. There is no radical solution to DDoS block that can only limit the damage, reduce the intensity of the attack. The security experts assess the extent of DDoS based on the number of bits of data per second. Many famous cases peaked 100 billion bits per second. However, towards the Spamhaus DDoS services has soared to 300 billion bits per second - enough to threaten scale infrastructure and make Internet access a user's network slowed down, rather than merely the number of an organization.
"This is the largest ever known in the history of the Internet", Patrick Gilmore at analyst firm Akamai Technologies, said.
"It is wonderful when we can still online," expert of Spamhaus said Vincent Hanna. If the goal is that hackers targeted a network of government, the system will collapse immediately.
According to Gilmore, the hacker took advantage of the weaknesses of the Internet infrastructure to fool thousands of server traffic to navigate Spamhaus per second. The mobilization of huge amount of bandwidth to "hit" a target that affected Internet connection.
"If you are feeling the intermittent Internet access or slowed down the last few days in Europe, the attacks may be part of the reason," Gilmore said.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the incident but the activities of Spamhaus spam blocking makes clear the company is located in the "black list" of many professional organizations spammers, the company specializes in trading illegal drugs, fake ..
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