A series of Irish Government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by the Irish National Lottery (DDoS) attacks on Friday, which apparently follow similar web attacks on popular boards, such as discussion boards, and Distributed Denial of Service earlier this week. On this occasion, the Central Statistics Office, the Department of Defence and Department of Justice were targeted. DDoS attacks overwhelm websites by bombarding them with simultaneous and repeated online requests and are typically used by organisations such as Anonymous; whilst they rarely involve theft of data or hacking activities, they do reveal site vulnerability.
A series of Irish Government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Friday, which apparently follow similar web attacks on popular boards, such as discussion boards, and the Irish National Lottery earlier this week. On this occasion, the Central Statistics Office, the Department of Defence and Department of Justice were targeted. DDoS attacks overwhelm websites by bombarding them with simultaneous and repeated online requests and are typically used by organisations such as Anonymous; whilst they rarely involve theft of data or hacking activities, they do reveal site vulnerability.