Massive cyber-attack grinds Liberia's internet to a halt
by Nicky Woolf in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#209Y9)
The attack was a distributed denial of service, in which a network of infected computers is directed to bombard its target with traffic and overload its servers
The entire internet infrastructure of the African nation of Liberia has been brought to a grinding halt after it was targeted by hackers using the same weapon that caused the largest cyber-attack in history just two weeks ago.
The attack was a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, in which a network of infected computers - a botnet - is directed to bombard its target with traffic, overloading its servers.