China suffers major DDoS attack on .cn domain

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3465607/china-suffers-major-ddos-attack-on-cn-domain/

By Michael Kan
Techworld.com
26 August 2013

China's Internet on early Sunday morning suffered a major distributed 
denial of service (DDoS) attack that briefly disrupted and slowed access 
to sites in the .cn domain.

The DDoS attack was the largest in history against the domain servers for 
China's .cn ccTLD (country code top level domain), according to the China 
Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which administers the domain.

The first attack started Sunday around midnight Beijing time, and was then 
succeeded by a larger attack at 4 a.m, the CNNIC said in an Internet 
posting. A number of sites were affected, but Internet service to the 
sites had been gradually restored by 10 a.m. Sunday

It's unclear where the attack originated from or if it was still 
continuing. A CNNIC spokeswoman said on Monday it would update the public 
once more information was gathered. Chinese regulators have already 
launched unspecified measures to protect the domain system, while CNNIC 
has apologized for the disruption.

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