Hackers mount widespread cyber attack

Hackers mount widespread cyber attack

Hackers mount widespread cyber attack By Bede McCarthy in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco   Hackers have hit a European anti-spam... 12:40 AM

Hackers mount widespread cyber attack

By Bede McCarthy in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco
 
Hackers have hit a European anti-spam group with a cyber attack so large that experts say it could slow down the internet itself.

The original target was Spamhaus, which said it had been subject to large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for the past week. Such attacks overwhelm servers by bombarding them with spurious requests simultaneously from computers all over the internet.
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