Radio Free Europe Suffering From DDoS Attack

Nemo - April 28, 2008 12:15PM in Internet

Radio Free Europe is reporting several of it's web sites are under attack and have been since Saturday. The assault came in the form of a distributed denial of service attack that floods sites with bogus information requests, preventing the sites from responding to legitimate traffic. The attack seems to be primarily affecting the Belarus service, however Radio Free Europe is reporting services to other countries including Russia, Iran, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, among others, are also experiencing difficulties. Radio Free Europe, a private corporation that receives funding from the U.S. government, pointed to the Belarus government as possibly being behind the attacks. The DDoS attack comes on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. A similar incident occurred last year but the attack lasted only hours instead of days.