Web Slows Under 'Biggest Attack Ever' -- The Telegraph
Millions of people around the world have been affected by slow internet speeds after an unprecedented attack.
A Dutch web-hosting company caused disruption and the global slowdown of the internet, according to a not-for-profit anti-spam organization.
The interruptions came after Spamhaus, a spam-fighting group based in Geneva, temporarily added the Dutch firm, CyberBunker, to a blacklist that is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam.
Cyberbunker is housed in a five-story former NATO bunker and famously offers its services to any website “except child porn and anything related to terrorism". As such it has often been linked to behaviour that anti-spam blacklist compilers have condemend.
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My Comment: I live in Montreal (Canada), and my internet speed is still excellent. But I do understand how frustrating it is to have slow speeds .... I first started web surfing with a U.S. Robotics 14.4k modem .... in retrospect I wonder how I survived. On a side note .... the worst speed that I ever experienced on the web was on 9/11. On that day it took forever (obviously) to load any news web site.
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