"Hacker" Wrath, World Internet Slows

 
Internet speeds in the world , especially in parts of continental Europe , reportedly slowed . It is not caused by damage to the infrastructure or the existing submarine cable anchors are exposed , as happened to one of the internet network operator Indonesia some time ago .
Internet slowdown in Europe is caused by a distributed denial of service attack ( DDoS ) is claimed to be the largest in history.
Typically , to launch a DDoS attack , an attacker exploit server or botnet to send fake traffic to the target with the hope of making the target server being offline or dead .
However , the attack was allegedly a little different this time . Hackers allegedly used the issue in the Domain Name System ( DNS ) servers to bombard the victim with the world's Internet traffic . The scale of this attack is referred to as the largest in history for being able to reach 300 GB per second.
The DDoS attack is directed to a network security firm called Spamhaus . The company is headquartered in the city of Geneva ( Switzerland ) and London ( UK ) has been working to make the black list ( blacklist ) web sites that are considered dangerous .
The black list will be sold to various companies internet service provider ( ISP ) that typically use this list as a reference to block web sites that are considered dangerous .
As quoted from Mashable , Thursday ( 03/28/2013 ) , the estimated black list "responsible " for blocking 80 percent of spam e - mails around the world .
Spamhaus itself is rumored to be the victim of a DDoS attack after adding Cyberbunker , a Dutch internet organizers , in the black list .
Cyberbunker is a data storage service that allows users to store all data , except for child pornography and matters relating to terrorism .
Apparently, the parties behind Cyberbunker or sympathize with her anger over the blocking action , then they counterattacked revenge .
Although Cyberbunker not actually accused of responsibility for the attack , claiming to be a spokesman Cyberbunker , Sven Olaf Kamphuis , provide a statement that made ​​the company become the accused .
The BBC , Kamphuis said Spamhaus should not be able to determine " what is allowed and not on the internet " .
Steve Linford , Spamhaus 's chief executive , told the BBC , said the scale of this attack is unprecedented . " We're in a cyber attack for more than a week , '' he said .
" But , they can not undermine us . Technician we did a tremendous job to ward off the attack . ''
Linford said police forces from five countries internet is now investigating the cyber attack .
source from Reza Wahyudi, compas.com

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