And is if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan’s presidential website ahead of senior politico’s arrival Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has tied her controversial visit to Taiwan to an alleged barrage of China-directed cyber-attacks against the territory.…
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House of Representatives Secretary General Surasak Pianwej Friday expressed confidence that the Parliament website has been effectively guarded against DDoS attack, saying the attack by angry Internet users brought down the site just ten minutes Thursday night. Surasak dismissed claimed by the group of “Citizens Against Single Gateway: Thailand Internet Firewall” that a DDoS attack organized by the group brought the down the webiste for an hour at 8:55 pm Thursday. “The system went down just 10 minutes and it resumed,” Surasak said. The group has urged Thai Internet users to join another DDoS attack at 2 pm Friday. Surasak said the officials will step up measures to prevent the attack. The group staged the attack after the National Legislative Assembly refused to abort the final reading of the new computer crime bill. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30302233
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Parliament website brought down by DDoS attack ‘just ten minutes’