It seems as though the European Parlament adopted a very nice resolution … gets DDOS’ed

I’ve decided to limit posting for the Thanksgiving holiday, and I hope that each and every one of you who read the blog and participate on the podcast has had a very nice Thanksgiving holiday.

The article that I’m going to talk about this posting came to us from our TSB list and was sent Thanksgiving evening.

Seems as though the European Parlament made a very good decision on calling Russia a problem, but after they called them a problem, they were knocked offline by Kilnet. Kilnet belongs to Russia and that’s no surprise.

The first paragraph says:

The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started shortly after the governing body voted to declare the Russian government a state sponsor of terrorism.

The European Parlament President confirmed the site outage, according to the article.

While the article was written, the site came back up, which is what a DDOS attack is. It only stays down as long as the attack persists.

For more, please read the article. The article is titled European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down.

Thanks for reading folks, we’ll have much more later.

Thanks Michael for posting this to our list!