Journalists uses words full of hyperbole to attract readership

But British are known to tone down when they are in the receiving end. Remember "London's minor disturbances?" but when it is African "Violent Riots erupted ... "

On 28 March 2013 13:48, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
And just to make it clear, the magnification of the DDoS problem is uncalled for. I am still wondering why someone decided to call it the "biggest cyber attack in history". Realtime Black Lists (RBLs) are special-purpose DNS servers only contacted by SMTP engines (for those who have configured their SMTP engines to do so) and it's not a default setting in many SMTP servers, IIRC.
The so called cyber attack would only slow down e-mail processing for those servers using the spamhaus RBLs. There is no way this is supposed to translate into slow speeds for DNS queries which are not directed towards RBLs. And how some guys managed to glue that to the Fiber cuts remains a mystery. Maybe rumor-mongers who like adding salt to make their rumor look real.


On 28 March 2013 12:11, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
The cable cuts and the Denial of Service attack on some servers are unrelated. The problem in East Africa is due to cable cuts in Egypt. A Denial of service attack is the equivalent of a stampede, where too many people (internet requests) are trying to squeeze in through a small opening - the point here being the many requests are malicious and designed to make the opening inaccessible to legitimate users.  

On 28 March 2013 11:12, Peres Were <peres_were@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Edith

The link below may explain it:

Global internet slowdown after biggest cyber-attack in history | Mail Online

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:07, Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.ca> wrote:

Listers,

 

I wonder if I’m the only one who’s experiencing slow Internet since yesterday – both official and personal connection. Anyone knows what’s going on?

 

Edith

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