'Most Severe' Cyberattack Since Russian Invasion Crashes Ukraine Internet Provider (forbes.com) 7
A "powerful" cyberattack has hit Ukraine's biggest fixed line telecommunications company, Ukrtelecom. Described as the most severe cyberattack since the start of the Russian invasion in February, it has sent the company's services across the country down. From a report: Victor Zhora, deputy head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, confirmed to Forbes that the government was investigating the attack. He said it's not yet known whether Ukrtelecom -- a telephone, internet and mobile provider -- has been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack or a deeper, more sophisticated intrusion. The attack has only been acknowledged by Ukrtelecom in responses to customer comments on Facebook. In one, it responded by saying that services were down as a result of a "powerful cyber attack of the enemy." When Forbes messaged Ukrtelecom over Facebook, an automated response was provided, reading, "Currently, there are difficulties in using the internet service from Ukrtelecom. Our specialists are doing everything possible to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Due to the abnormal load and problems with internal systems, the operators of the contact center and Facebook can not process customer requests." NetBlocks, which tracks internet downtimes across the world, found Ukrtelecom had been dealing with a disrupted service since this morning, "collapsing to 13% of pre-war levels."
"Thar she blows"? (Score:2)
Perhaps I spoke too soon, but I'd been composing for a while. Or maybe from somewhere else?
I note that https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... [imdb.com] was nominated for an Oscar but was apparently unseen, forgotten, and thus unrated when IMDB came around. No relation to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... [imdb.com] (which was a later comedy and also unrated).
So if none of the Russian trolls show up here... (Score:2)
Then at least we know where they are and what they are doing?
Too late now, but I keep wondering what would have happened if we had made some better design choices some years back. Yeah, it's hard to create complicated software, but we didn't have to throw security considerations under the (EULA) rug in pursuit of bigger profits. Security problems are big, but they aren't infinitely big.
In contrast, the problem of seeking a bigger profit really is infinitely big. However many dollars or rubles or quatloos (o
bad.... (Score:1)
tandem switch? you can't do layer 2 with just anyone.
Bungling by Russian troops seems to have no limit. (Score:2)
Boom! no more internet, no whatsapp, back to open cellphone voice calls...
Enough of the Neocon war porn (Score:2)