TalkTalk and Post Office routers were taken down by a distributed denial of service attack this week, which targeted Hull’s internet provider Kcom and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. The attack left over one million customers without internet connection in Germany and the UK, with many customers complaining that TalkTalk and the Post Office had not sufficiently helped them with the issue. In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s
TalkTalk and Post Office routers were taken down by a distributed denial of service attack this week, which targeted Hull’s internet provider Kcom and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. The attack left over one million customers without internet connection in Germany and the UK, with many customers complaining that TalkTalk and the Post Office had not sufficiently helped them with the issue. The agents behind the attack have not been identified, but the attack used a similar approach to the one used against the Dyn domain name server, which took Twitter, eBay and Reddit offline for a period in October by exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-connected devices.