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DDoS Attack on Myanmar Takes the Country Offline!!!!
  • mandi
    Posts: 207
    The main Internet provider for Myanmar, the southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma, has been under severe denial of service attack for some time now, according to the Myanmar Times. A blog post by Arbor Networks goes into technical detail about the attacks.


    http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/assets_c/2010/11/burmaddos-thumb-450x149-17008.jpg


    The Myanmar Times story focuses on the damage done to tourism as the online booking systems are unavailable. All such work must be done over the phone now.

    Arbor Networks says that the attack targets the main Internet provider, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT for short). The attacks are well-distributed and Arbor estimates the volume at "...between 10-15 Gbps (several hundred times more than enough to overwhelm the country's 45 Mbps T3 terrestrial and satellite links)."



    Detailed News:


    http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19906
    http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2010/11/attac-severs-myanmar-internet/



    NOTE:It is not my original post,I found this while surfing on the internet,hope you would like this :)
  • George
    Posts: 707
    Interesting story, never heard of Myanmar before.
  • mandi
    Posts: 207
    Yes but i am wondering at 1 case how a 45 GB Ddos takes down an entire country offline ...
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    Aside from the ddos attack I never knew Burma had a new name... learn something new everyday :)
  • undead
    Posts: 822
    very interesting.. thanks for the info