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The largest cyber attack in history just happened

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corona
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apparently it 'slowed internet worldwide'. done by a dutch site.


here's a bit of info on it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299999/Global-internet-slowdown-biggest-cyber-attack-history.html
Mar 27 2013 1:00PM
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alvy.
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Mar 27 2013 1:01PM
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corona
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not done by a dutch site, the dutch site was attacked
Mar 27 2013 1:01PM
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ILLinoisance
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I don't want to start pointing fingers, but I have a feeling this fucker may have been involved:

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Mar 27 2013 1:05PM
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Ski_the_east01
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hahahahahahahahahaha

also 'spamhaus' is the worst name for a website ever
Mar 27 2013 1:07PM
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maximiliaan
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Ok
Mar 27 2013 1:09PM
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BeefiestExpert
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lol i lost.
Mar 27 2013 1:09PM
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Karma_Police
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Where do you come from?  I want to visit.
Mar 27 2013 1:11PM
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freestyler540
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Im sure Estonia's attack was bigger
Mar 27 2013 1:12PM
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Petey.
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Lol. Really seems devastating.
Mar 27 2013 1:12PM
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Hammyslapwagon
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Just read an article about this like an hour ago.  I don't understand why the spam company would do do such a large DDoS attack....
Mar 27 2013 1:27PM
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Msully
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spamhaus was ddos'd + a few other types of attacks.

At one point it was hit with a 330gbps attack.

spamhaus is a shit company which finds websites / servers that generate mailers, sms,and voip dialers. Recently they decided to block some isps / data centers in europe and alot of people are getting sick of them and decided to retaliate.

spamhaus went to cloudfare (probably the best ddos mitigation company out there but extremely expensive)

story is kinda old attacks been going on for a few weeks... but the bandwidth grew immensely last few days.
Mar 28 2013 8:56AM
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CheddarJack
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Huh.
Mar 28 2013 9:17AM
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bfulmer
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my thoughts exactly
Mar 28 2013 12:43PM
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Caspaaa
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is it me or does that sound absurdly fast...
Mar 28 2013 1:20PM
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edai
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Ive been streaming 24 on Netflix (great show btw) for the last 4 hours on two devices and I didnt notice a thing...
Mar 28 2013 1:24PM
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ILLinoisance
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it happened yesterday.
Mar 28 2013 1:40PM
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CaptainDiabetes
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lol

REVEALED: The Nato bunker deep in Netherlands forest where hackers 'almost brought down world's internet in biggest every cyber-attack'

when the title has a typo in it, it kind of loses some credability. "biggest every cyber attack"

Mar 28 2013 8:19PM
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1337
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Inb4 euro news source who dont use english as a primary language
Mar 28 2013 8:26PM
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Msully
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its on cnn

and 1gbps = 1024mbps

considering average internet in the us is 10-20mbps down and 2mbps up...
Mar 29 2013 12:12AM
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SacZiplock
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I feel shitty cuz mine is 1 mb /s and 300 up... Fuck
Mar 29 2013 11:21AM
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skibeest
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That X6 seemed oddly out of place
Mar 29 2013 3:37PM
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e_strapp
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Nah man it was there for reasons, probably science related
Mar 29 2013 3:55PM
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Rachy
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Is it just me? Or is something wrong with this news article headline?

REVEALED: The Nato bunker deep in Netherlands forest where hackers 'almost brought down world's internet in biggest every cyber-attack'

Mar 29 2013 5:48PM
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
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Yeah i knoww what the x5 is.
Mar 29 2013 5:51PM
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Hammyslapwagon
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everywhere expect the United States...is what you would say if that statement were to be correct
Mar 29 2013 5:56PM
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Downtofilm
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Pretty sure thats a ferrari.
Mar 29 2013 6:13PM
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shuckle
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Mar 29 2013 6:44PM
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