The cyber attack government sites, Telfort and GeenStijl yesterday paralyzed focused on Rijksoverheid.nl. That said Raymond Dijkxhoorn, director of hosting provider Prolocation against RTL News.
He is upset about the comments in The Hague, where MPs demand a clarification about the DDoS attack yesterday. “We call for years that something must be done about this kind of attack, for example by perpetrators like to try in a bank robbery by criminal law. Then the shoulders are retrieved, but now it is a site of the government, one yells in Hague suddenly murder. ” According Dijkxhoorn the website GeenStijl almost every week attacked but remain their declarations
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The trouble started yesterday around 10:00 hours and two hours later it became clear that it was a DDoS attack. “We have technicians sent to the three data centers from which we host sites Rijksoverheid.nl, to see if we could solve it,” says Dijkxhoorn. “But it was a unique DDoS attack, without the usual traffic that we see there normally in. The intensity of the attack was certainly very high, we had to make adjustments on the routers,” describes Dijkxhoorn, who says that the attack specifically focused on Rijksoverheid.nl. He could not say which differed attack yesterday from other DDoS attacks as part of the investigation.
According Dijkxhoorn the systems in many ways provide a backup, but this attack or worries: “One might here be pressure to make There has been arrested to someone once. that’s it. To us it is not, we provide regular information about attacks, but the government is doing nothing. ” He takes the attack on high: “You do realize how serious this is when you close a lifetime.”
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Dijkxhoorn has no idea what the purpose of the attack: “There is a global everything, but we have no evidence of that has anything to do with it in earlier attacks Anonymous claimed the honor on that now. not happened. There was no notice and even after one has claimed the attack. “
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