A week-old squabble between two Dutch groups — the spamfighting Spamhaus Project and Web hosting service Cyberbunker — has resulted in what has been called the largest distributed denial of service attack in Web history. The cyberfight reportedly has spilled over onto the global Internet and slowed down some data communications, especially in Europe. The attacks were launched by Cyberbunker, which says it will host anything except child pornography and terrorism-related content.
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Dutch Spam Fight Boils Over Into Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 27, 2013 03:40 PMA week-old squabble between two Dutch groups — the spamfighting Spamhaus Project and Web hosting service Cyberbunker — has resulted in what has been called the largest distributed denial of service attack in Web history. The cyberfight reportedly has spilled over onto the global Internet and slowed down some data communications, especially in Europe. The attacks were launched by Cyberbunker, which says it will host anything except child pornography and terrorism-related content.