{"id":649263,"date":"2013-03-27T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=400333"},"modified":"2013-03-27T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:09:27","slug":"spat-between-two-dutch-companies-sparks-record-breaking-300gbps-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649263","title":{"rendered":"Spat between two Dutch companies sparks record-breaking 300Gbps DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/record-breaking-ddos-attack-analysis-400333\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/hackers-hacking-hacks.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=490&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Record Breaking DDoS Attack\" title=\"DDoS attack\" \/><\/a><\/center>Insulting the honor of alleged Dutch spammers may not be the smartest idea. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/27\/technology\/internet\/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that a fight between Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus and Dutch hosting company\u00a0Cyberbunker has resulted in the world&#8217;s largest recorded <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/08\/31\/google-flaw-allows-hackers-to-execute-ddos-attacks-using-google-servers\/\">distributed\u00a0denial-of-service<\/a> (DDoS)\u00a0attack, which peaked at speeds of 300Gbps this week.\u00a0The spat between the firms started when Spamhaus added Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is designed to help\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/18\/android-spam-botnet-257993\/\">email providers block alleged spammers<\/a>. Shortly after Spamhaus blacklisted Cyberbunker, which says it on its website that it will host any data not related to child pornography or terrorism, the anti-spam group was hit by an enormous DDoS attack that is described by Akamai Networks chief architect Patrick Gilmore as &#8220;the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/jO2DQ3A0ILM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insulting the honor of alleged Dutch spammers may not be the smartest idea. The New York Times reports that a fight between Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus and Dutch hosting company\u00a0Cyberbunker has resulted in the world&#8217;s largest recorded distributed\u00a0denial-of-service (DDoS)\u00a0attack, which peaked at speeds of 300Gbps this week.\u00a0The spat between the firms started when Spamhaus added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}