Power Cyber-Attack Slows Internet – (March 27, 2013) “: What some are calling the biggest cyber-attack ever is reportedly slowing down Internet connections around the world. At the root of the problem is an apparent dispute between two organizations — Spamhaus, a group of volunteers who work with companies to monitor and block email spammers, and Cyberbunker, a free-wheeling Dutch web hosting company. Spamhaus allegedly blocked Cyberbunker’s servers because it suspected they were hosting spammers.
“The size of the attack, 300gb/sec is impressive, and it appears to be CyberBunker’s second bite at the Denial of Service apple having launched a 75gb/sec attack on March 19, which was mitigated by Cloudflare,” said Christopher Burgess, author of Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost, Preventing Economic Espionage and Intellectual Property Theft in the 21st Century. “Today’s attack is substantially larger and may be taxing the overall net.
“The distributed nature of the Internet and service providers working in unison is what is making the event manageable on a global scale, though Spamhaus’ site was shaky as of 1245 PST, when two attempts were necessary to load the front page.
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