Global Security Magazine – A cyber attack has knocked Liberia\u2019s internet offline, as hackers targeted the nation\u2019s infrastructure using the same method that shut down hundreds of the world\u2019s most popular websites at the end of last month. Multiple attacks against Liberia\u2019s internet infrastructure have intermittently taken the country\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u2013 10Gbps pipes. Many smaller countries don\u2019t have that much bandwidth serving their entire country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Global Security Magazine – A cyber attack has knocked Liberia\u2019s internet offline, as hackers targeted the nation\u2019s infrastructure using the same method that shut down hundreds of the world\u2019s most popular websites at the end of last month. Multiple attacks against Liberia\u2019s internet infrastructure have intermittently taken the country\u2019s websites offline over the course of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n