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2016-09-16 UTC |
| Internet harassment is becoming an increasingly ugly and widespread issue,
and over the weekend of August 13-14 it spilled into territory we could do
something about. After a few weeks of low level activity, over that weekend
some unknown cyber criminals launched a targeted attack on over 100 government
email addresses, using bots to create mailing list subscription requests at
the rate of over 1000 per minute. Effectively, this was a denial of service
attack, rendering the government mailboxes useless for considerable time.
Over the next couple of months the targets expanded from government addresses
to others, some of which were targeted and timed to be especially disruptive.... (>) |
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