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Burma Taken Off-Net By Cyber Attack
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Burma Taken Off-Net By Cyber Attack
Burma Taken Off-Net By Cyber Attack
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/myanmar-taken-off-net-by-cyber-attack-11113
By Peter Judge
eWEEK Europe
November 4, 2010
The Asian nation of Myanmar, still widely known as Burma, has been
virtually taken of the Net by a sustained attack of unknonw origin.
Acording to analysis by Arbor Networks the cyber-warfare attack, which
centred on the main Myanmar internet provider, the state-owned Ministry
of Post and Telecommunications (PTT), has been going for several days
and provided enough bogus traffic to swamp the relatively small links
the country has to the Internet.
The attack is bigger than similar attacks on Georgia and Estonia, and
no-one knows who is behind it, although it has been speculated on
Twitter that the government itself may have instigated it ahead of a
general election on 7 November. It has been widely reported that the
Government was behind an Internet failure during the anti-government
protests in August 2007
=E2=80=9DWe estimate the Myanmar DDoS is between 10-15 Gbps,=E2=80=9D said Craig
Labovitz of Arbor Networks, =E2=80=9Cseveral hundred times more than enough to
overwhelm the country=E2=80=99s 45 Mbps T3 terrestrial and satellite links=E2=80=9D
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