Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'

[cronus]

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

Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'

The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.

A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks flooding core infrastructure.

It is having an impact on widely used services like Netflix - and experts worry it could escalate to affect banking and email services.

Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks.

Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is a non-profit organisation which aims to help email providers filter out spam and other unwanted content.

To do this, the group maintains a number of blocklists - a database of servers known to be being used for malicious purposes.

Recently, Spamhaus blocked servers maintained by Cyberbunker, a Dutch web host which states it will host anything with the exception of child pornography or terrorism-related material.

Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claims to be a spokesman for Cyberbunker, said, in a message, that Spamhaus was abusing its position, and should not be allowed to decide "what goes and does not go on the internet".

Spamhaus has alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with "criminal gangs" from Eastern Europe and Russia, is behind the attack.

Cyberbunker has as yet offered no reply to the BBC when contacted directly.

(continued, not noticed this...anyone else getting this?)

[JimC]

Not noticed any slow down here...

[MrFungus420]

I used to have that version of War of the Worlds on vinyl.

[cronus]

I used to have that version of War of the Worlds on vinyl.

The new generation version is crap, hosted by some wimp who sounds like he'd rather hide behind a rock.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Back to the OP... Fuck childish "You're not my real father!" shit.

[John_fi_Skye]

The broadband here is pretty narrow anyway. Just seems like normal sloth today.

[Coito ergo sum]

This attack pales in comparison to the great internet war of 1876.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It hasn't affected Ratz, so meh.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This attack pales in comparison to the great internet war of 1876.

Meh, when the Confederates fired on Silicon Valley, that's when the fun really began.

[Coito ergo sum]

I just love the sensationalist headlines -- "worst attack ever in history!!!!!" --- oh...you mean in the last 10 or 15 years that we've had cyber attacks....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I just love the sensationalist headlines -- "worst attack ever in history!!!!!" --- oh...you mean in the last 10 or 15 years that we've had cyber attacks....

"It would be the most important event in the history of ... history!" Ellen Anne Arroway.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... D_20130328

[Jason]

Policing the internets under the guise of stopping spam. It's been happening for a long time. Problem was, spam is only a minor annoyance to most people. What we need is something scary! Cyber Warfare! They can kill us all through the internets!! Stop fighting proposed legislation for our governments to police the internet!