Global Security Magazine – A cyber attack has knocked Liberia’s internet offline, as hackers targeted the nation’s infrastructure using the same method that shut down hundreds of the world’s most popular websites at the end of last month. Multiple attacks against Liberia’s internet infrastructure have intermittently taken the country’s websites offline over the course of a week. Commenting on this, Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst at NSFOCUS, said “Researchers and analysts (like myself) have been warning organisations all over the world that this day would come, and now it’s here. Since the attacks on Spamhaus in early 2013 that exceeded 300Gbps, taking a country offline in a DDoS attack became more of a reality. Doing the math, a 1Tbps DDoS attack can fill 100 – 10Gbps pipes. Many smaller countries don’t have that much bandwidth serving their entire country.
Cyber attack takes Liberia’s entire Internet down – expert comment
