Cyber ​​Attack affects Stemwijzer

rijswijk - The websites Stemwijzer.nl and Kieskompas.nl his Tuesday unreachable. The organization behind the Stemwijzer claims to be affected by a so-called DDoS attack, in which servers are flooded with requests for information and thus failure.

A spokesman for Vote Compass could not say why the website Kieskompas. en was unreachable. Searching hard for the cause. Kieskompas makes various voice pointers; only the select pointer Green reached.

Kieskompas suggested that a lack of server capacity is not the reason the site was black. Also ProDemos, the organization behind the Stemwijzer, said Tuesday morning as a precaution installed additional servers. However, against a DDoS attack is according to a spokeswoman little start.

The timing of the cyber attack on the Stemwijzer affects many undecided voters extremely inconvenient. According to the spokeswoman ProDemos made on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 2012 hourly tens of thousands of people using the digital voice assistant.