Cyber Attack to Blame for Slow Surfing
A massive cyber attack targeting a European spam-fighting groupdid more than just slow its target to a crawl. The unprecedentedDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which involves flooding a target network with so many requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted, actually slowed the entire Internet. At times, the data stream reached peaks of 300 Gbps(gigabits per second), a threefold increase from a 2010 DDos attack that previously held the distinction of being the largest of its kind in history. More… Discuss
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may be that’s why we have all kind of problems that we did not have before? who knows
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True….
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Thank you,thank youX3. I don’t understand why WordPress does this…unless they have a hidden agenda, which these days would be just…the norm!
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