FOX News: Internet 'bystanders' affected as massive cyberattack hits Spamhaus

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Internet 'bystanders' affected as massive cyberattack hits Spamhaus Mar 27th 2013, 19:30 Published March 27, 2013 FoxNews.com March 26, 2013: The volume of internet attacks is up 107.4 percent, according to a real-time traffic monitor on Akamai.com.Akamai LONDON –  The Internet is under attack.  Spam-fighting organization Spamhaus is being targeted with massive cyberattack that experts say may be the biggest in the history of the web. The so-called distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS, uses networks of computers to point huge volumes of web traffic at a computer server, a technique that readily knocks one offline.  Picture the effect trying to sip from a Niagra Falls would have on you and you'll get the idea.  The DDoS attack being waged against Spamhaus has reached a previously unheard of magnitude, according to Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at digital content provider Akamai -- a data stream of 300 billion bits per second.  "It's the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet," Gilmore to the New York Times. The massive cyberattack is apparently from groups angry at being blacklisted by the Geneva-based Spamhaus -- and the digital assault is so great that Gilmore said the electronic onslaught was affecting others across the Internet. Users could experience slower Internet or be subjected to unwanted emails. Spamhaus carries a constantly-updated blacklist of service providers suspected of offering refuge for spammers. In an interview, Spamhaus' Vincent Hanna said his site had been hit by such a crushing wave of denial-of-service attacks and that it was "a small miracle that we're still online." Hanna said his group had been weathering such attacks since mid-March. The attacks work by flooding target servers with traffic. Gilmore said the attack was so large that online bystanders had been hit as well. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Related Stories What your gadget says about you Google picks 8,000 geeks to try out Google Glass Illinois supercomputer among world's most powerful

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