Chinese websites with the “.cn” domain name extension fell on Sunday to a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the state-run China Internet Network Information Center reported. Two attacks reportedly were launched — the first at midnight on Sunday and the second at 4 p.m. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched DNS security-specific contingency plans, and CINIC apologized to users. CINIC described the second attack as the largest DDoS attack it has faced so far.
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Chinese Domain Buckles Under One-Two DDoS Punch
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 27, 2013 05:00 AMChinese websites with the “.cn” domain name extension fell on Sunday to a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the state-run China Internet Network Information Center reported. Two attacks reportedly were launched — the first at midnight on Sunday and the second at 4 p.m. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched DNS security-specific contingency plans, and CINIC apologized to users. CINIC described the second attack as the largest DDoS attack it has faced so far.