Cyber-attack in Europe

[araucaria]

Saw this story originally in the French press describing a Europe-wide explanation for recent deadly slow Internet browsing. I have a new mouse and a sprained hand to show for it

According to this BBC article, it is now a global problem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

[Limor Wolf]

And the plans to regulate the internet are contiunuing. A big brother babysitter will soon be ofered to the concerned people. Good that we have such a caring and loving government to defend us

[Alexis]

I have many problems with internet since 2 or 3 days ... it's slow or the connection fail
Thank you , now I know why

[araucaria]

Alexis, for you:

http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/03..._hp_ref=france

[Cidersomerset]

A couple of reports from RT...


World Wide War: Biggest cyber-attack shakes web

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ZLqayQ-04

Published on 27 Mar 2013


A battle is waging across the internet. A Geneva-based non-profit, spam-filtering
organist says it's under the worst-ever cyber attack, so strong it's slowing down
internet access globally. It's allegedly a strike from a Dutch web-hosting company
called CyberBunker, which it blocked days before. RT's video agency Ruptly got in
touch with Sven Olaf Kamphuis, a spokesman for CyberBunker.



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Digital Doom: Cyber-attacks as dangerous as WMDs?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D9gTgWxgSBQ

Published on 28 Mar 2013


There's no better place than the Internet for minimal damage to turn into an epic
disaster, given how much crucial data is stored on the web. READ MORE:
http://on.rt.com/ep1h08


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[araucaria]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...-down-internet

[yiolas]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Saw this story originally in the French press describing a Europe-wide explanation for recent deadly slow Internet browsing. I have a new mouse and a sprained hand to show for it

According to this BBC article, it is now a global problem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

Thanks Araucaria, I'm in Cyprus and what you reported probably explains why I was ready to throw my computer out yesterday, but finally called my provider today. After "pinging" me a few times it seems that my problem has been solved for the moment.

[Jeffrey]

I have noticed this!

I even mentioned it to a few friends at the library last week.

It's been at least a week now -- at least for me -- that the internet has been markedly slower (even completely locked up at times). I thought it was unusual.

Thanks for the link.

[norman]

A pot boiling, or simmering, while they line up a few more ducks. It's probably not about who's doing what to who about what. Those things happen. It's about editing the 'news'.

Those server farms like "cyber bucket" are only in existence because 'someone' wants them to be an aggressor on the web that can be opposed by "reasonable" measures. If there wasn't a bigger plan, they'd have been stopped very easily before it came to this.

[araucaria]

Interesting that an antispam service provider should be involved. Two years ago, spam messages dropped from about 250 bn in August 2010 to about 50 bn early in 2011. I don't know where they are at now, but I reckon probably back where they were. I have been getting loads, often the same ones and multiple times a day.