Internet Hit By 'biggest Attack Ever'

Patrick Gilmore, of digital content provider Akamai Networks told the New York
Times that Cyberbunker did not believe spamming users was wrong. “These guys
are just mad. To be frank, they got caught,” he alleged. “They
think they should be allowed to spam.”

Calling the disruptions “one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet,”
the New York Times reported
today that millions of ordinary web users have experienced delays in
services such as Netflix video-streaming service or couldn’t reach a certain
website for a short time.

“The size of the attack hurt some very large networks and internet exchange
points such as the London Internet Exchange,” John Reid, a spokesman for
Spamhaus, said in an e-mailed response to questions by Bloomberg News. “It
could be thousands, it could be millions. Due to our global infrastructure,
the attackers target places all over the world.”

Spamhaus was targeted with a so-called distributed denial of service