Vote Aids back to black by cyber attack

Vote Aids back to black by cyber attack

Tech March 15, 2017 09:27

rijswijk - The digital voice aids Kieskompas and VoteMatch his Tuesday again unreachable. Here were the two websites accessible again, after they had been taken earlier in the day by a DDoS attack, but that was short-lived. Around 20:00 the voice assistants went offline again.

Kieskompas and ProDemos, the organization behind the VoteMatch, assume a coordinated attack. According to Willem Blanken of Kieskompas began the attacks on the digital voice aids at the same time. The VoteMatch was at the beginning of the evening was just as online and Kieskompas around 19. 30 again as accessible, but not half an hour later they were no longer accessible.

Vote Compass is a declaration of the attack and wishes to work together with ProDemos. Who is not yet known behind the attack. Earlier, a spokeswoman for ProDemos though they are going to find out who is behind the attack.

In a DDoS attack servers with so many requests for information are overwhelmed that they become overloaded and going to a Web site from the air. The attack on the VoteMatch and Kieskompas came many undecided voters extremely inconvenient. According to the spokeswoman VoteMatch made on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 2012 hourly tens of thousands of people using the website.

ProDemos had Tuesday morning as a precaution additional servers installed. That must occur that would cause a large influx of online problems. However, against the DDoS attack was, according to the spokeswoman little start. Also Kieskompas was well prepared and had enough server capacity. Even those, however, were no match against the DDoS attack.

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