DDoS attack hits Sweden police site
p2pnet news view Crime | P2P:- Swedish authorities still haven’t discovered who was behind a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which rendered a number of major Swedish websites, including the country’s police site, inaccessible yesterday.
“We’re the victims of an ongoing DDoS attack,” The Local has spokesperson Linda Widmark saying, “shortly before the site, polisen.se, became accessible again at around 5pm”.
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) was on “full alert” following a 12-hour period in which news organizations and police have both been targeted, says the story.
Early Thursday morning, “a client of IT service provider Basefarm fell victim to what appeared to be a deliberate hacker attack” it says, going on:
” Since then, many of the company’s other clients have also been targeted in a series of attacks which took several major Swedish news sites out of operation during the morning. ‘It seems to be some form of overload attack,” Basefarm spokesperson Jan Fredriksson told the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper’.”
Lennart Rosqvist, head of IT at Göteborgs-Posten (GP), a Mktmedia newspapers hit by the attack, was critical of Basefarm.
The common web platform used by the papers explains part of the reason why so many news websites were affected, The Local has him stating, continuing, “It’s obvious that you can’t protect against everything. But my understanding is that Basefarm should have had some form of protection against this. DDoS-attackers aren’t an unknown phenomenon,” Rosqvist told GP.
“He added that the incident should serve as a lesson to webmasters about the dangers of having a centralized system rather than a decentralized system,” says the story.
The Local – Police website falls victim to cyber attack, October 29, 2009
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October 30th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Is this for the continuous TPB persecution by the Swedish state and collusion between the entertainment kartels and mainstream media?
October 30th, 2009 at 11:02 am
It’s been affecting DynDNS.com today (the DNS provider I use), hence my domain names don’t resolve.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 am
Hey i found one full story at :- http://hackerthedude.blogspot.com/2009/11/swedish-police-under-cyber-attack-ddos.html