A major spamming
battle between rival websites has reduced some of the internet and email
services across the world to a crawl.
This so called
battle between the anti spamming websites and the web hosting company has
resulted in 300gb of data a second being released across the internet.
Among some of
the sites was the video streaming service Netflix but, with just a mere 50gb of
data enough to crash a banks servers, there were fears that this problem could
escalate and become much bigger than first though.
An experienced
IT security consultant said that the attackers were beginning to threaten the
crucial domain name system which holds up the whole internet. He then added if
they are able to direct too much traffic through the DNS then it could bring
down the whole internet meaning losses for everyone.
The target of
the week long attach is Spamhaus, it is a not-for-profit organisation based in
London and Geneva. It says that it is retaliation for blacklisting Dutch
company, Cyberbunker, which is based in a former NATO bunker.
Spamhaus has
claimed that the attack that has been widely acknowledged as the largest of its
type ever seen, it was the work of an alliance of hackivists and cyber
criminals.
On Tuesday
experts had warned that the assault could go as far as to impact on banking and
personal email accounts, Spamhaus keeps a database of web servers which are
known to be used for malicious purposes, such as sending spam mail for bogus
products and earlier this month they added Cyberbunker.
They have said
that Cyberbunker has launched a huge ‘denial of service’ (DDoS) attack in
relation by flooding its servers with internet traffic. This is like jamming a
mailbox with hundreds of letters at the same time, or getting a thousand texts
all at the same time your phone will crash because it cannot cope like the
internet will eventually crash if it carries on.
Author Bio:
Jake currently
writes for Dial Up 247, an internet company that provides pay as you go dial up.
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