VietNamNet Bridge – As of January 4 afternoon, the traffic to VietNamNet online newspaper has suddenly risen by dozens of times, resulted in the overload of servers.

According to technicians, the unexpected increase of traffic to VietNamNet (http://vietnamnet.vn) originated from many Internet protocols at home and abroad. They defined this as a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which aimed to prevent access to the site because of overload.

As the attack came from many IPs, it is very difficult for technicians to differentiate between normal access from readers and DDOS access.

As the website is overloaded, the access to our website becomes very slow. Sometimes readers will be unable to open the site.

Our technicians work with relevant agencies and Internet service providers to prevent the next attack.

We hope for our readers’ understanding and that they will remain side by side with us.

A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. There are two general forms of DoS attacks: those that crash services and those that flood services. Attacks can be directed at any network device, including attacks on routing devices and web, electronic mail, or Domain Name System servers.

In November and December 2010, VietNamNet newspaper was attacked by hackers twice. In the first attack, hackers changed the homepage and deleted the entire data on VietNamNet’s servers. In the second attack, hackers broke into the newspaper’s content management system and changed the content of some articles.

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