Hackers
and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies
day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting
and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too.
Recently, the largest ever and most severe Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
in the history of the Internet has been recorded that hit the online
democracy poll promoting opinion on the upcoming Hong Kong elections.
PopVote,
an online mock election operated by The University of Hong Kong’s
Public Opinion Program, by Saturday recorded more than half a million
votes in less than 30 hours in the unofficial referendum that provided
permanent residents of Hong Kong to choose their preferred political
representatives, that is suppose to be continued until June 29.
However, the Chief Executive is
officially chosen by a 1,200-member Election Committee under the current
political system and drawn largely from pro-Beijing and business camps.
On the first day of voting, China’s State Council denounced the voting as “illegal and invalid.”
Hong Kong’s chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, said all the proposals on
the ballot are not complied with Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the territory’s
de facto constitution.
On Friday, Matthew Prince,
the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based CloudFlare, the web
performance company maintaining the voting website, said that the DDoS
attack on the Occupy Central’s voting platform was “one of the largest and most persistent” ever.
According to Prince, the
cybercriminals appeared to be using a network of compromised computers
around the world to effectively disable the service of the voting
website with an overwhelming amount of traffic. In such cases of
attacks, the computer users who are exploited are usually unaware that
their systems have been compromised.
Prince also wrote on Twitter: “Battling 300Gbps+ attack right now,”
on the first day that the vote began. Three hundred gigabits per second
is an enormous amount of data to take down any huge servers.
Also a DDoS attack last year on Spamhaus,
a non-profit organisation that aims to help email providers filter out
spams and other unwanted contents, is largely considered to be the
biggest DDoS attack in the history, which the Cloudflare said the attack
“almost broke the Internet.”
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