Cyber ​​Attacks Hit China Wholesale

To relentless cyber attacks commonly experienced by the Chinese state. But the attacks that hit China this time, being the biggest attack ever happened to the structure of the Bamboo Curtain internet.

Report quoted by AFP on Tuesday (08/27/2013), citing government sources related to mention, cyber attacks this time causes the server. Cn, China domain, crash.

Based on information from the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), the domain resolution services nationwide beaten distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) for two hours at the end of last week.

As is known, the domain name resolution is key how the internet works, instrumental in changing the name of the website into a series of digits - the IP address of a computer-recognizable. In China itself, its services focus on the extension website. Cn.

DDoS attacks attempt to overload the server with a large number of requests, thereby disrupting the server works. CNNIC said the types of attacks that hit China for the second time this is the largest, without anyone knowing who the mastermind.

"The resolution of a number of websites affected by this attack, making it slow even inaccessible at all," CNNIC said in a statement.

Cyber ​​attacks that hit a large country like China is often linked to 'war' with the state cyber competitors. In this regard, China is often reciprocated mutual accusations by the United States.

The United States government has several times accused China deliberately attacked government websites and businesses that the country uncle sam.

But China denies this. Beijing-based government called the allegations absurd. China said, they themselves often become victims of Internet attacks.

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