Hi All, SAN FRANCISCO - Myanmar's internet link to the world has been overpowered by a massive cyber attack, just days before the country's first election, according to US network security firm Arbor Networks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack started in late October, Which is completely bring down the country's internet service provider, The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Arbor Networks said in a blog posting.
The attack, which could be linked to an attempt to disrupt the country's November 7 election, has spiked internet traffic targeting the country's network to several hundred times greater than can be handled by Myanmar's terrestrial and satellite links. The DDoS attack was attempting to push 10-15 gigabits of data through those connections, which can only support about 45 megabits per second, Arbor Networks' Craig Labovitz estimated.It is typically utilize virus-laden PCs to bombard service providers with data requests and overwhelm them. The attack on Myanmar could be the largest DDoS ever targeting a single country, since it was far larger than the attacks on Estonia and Georgia in 2007. "While DDoS against e-commerce and commercial sites are common (hundreds per day), large-scale geo-politically motivated attacks - especially ones targeting an entire country - remain rare with a few notable exceptions," Labovitz wrote. "At 10-15 Gbps, the Burma attacks is also significantly larger than the 2007 Georgia (814 Mbps) and Estonia DDoS." - DPA/Bernama -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB.
