Cyber criminals are wreaking havoc in the world of internet. Their power is growing every day, causing bigger problems to companies and government organizations. Recently, the largest ever DDoS attack to be experienced in the history of the World Wide Web has been incurred on Hong Kong’s Democracy website. It is being difficult to get rid of the malice owing to its extremity.
DDoS is short for Distributed Denial of Service. In this type of attack, a network of computers around the world is used. The owners of the compromised users are unaware about the fact that their machines are being manipulated to be used for cybercrime.
The DDoS attack made on Hong Kong’s Democracy voting website has been made using the largest network of comprised computers ever. It has affected the results of the mock online elections. The attack was made right on the first day when the polling began. A huge traffic is being diverted towards the website by the cybercriminals who are behind this attack. To be specific, there is a load of 300 gigabits per second on the website. One such big DDoS attack was made last year on the website of an NGO called Spamhaus.
CloudFare is a company based in San Francisco which is maintaining this voting website for Hong Kong. Mathew Prince, the CEO of CloudFare has reported the DDoS to be one of the biggest as well as the most persistent of such attacks. His Twitter status says he is busy fighting against the huge attack.
[…] Cyber criminals are wreaking havoc in the world of internet. Their power is growing every day, causing bigger problems to companies and government organizations. Recently, the largest ever DDoS attack to be experienced in the history of the World Wide Web has been incurred on Hong Kong’s Democracy website. It is being difficult to get… […]
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