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Swedish Police Network Hit by DDoS Attack

Posted by Kara Reeder Nov 2, 2009 10:03:51 AM

Sweden's police administration Web site was crippled following a DDoS attack that flooded the site with information requests, reports V3.co.uk. Traffic spiked from from 800 requests a second to more than 400,000.

 

As many as 40 media sites also being hosted by service provider Basefarm were also down. Investigators have no idea who behind the attacks or their motive.

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