Cyber Attack Immobilizes Dutch Government Websites

As reported by the BBC, most of the Dutch government’s websites were rendered inoperable after a successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber-attack on Tuesday, when servers were flooded with traffic, rendering the sites virtually inoperable.  A number of private sites were also breached, and the attack also affected communications provider Telford.  As the BBC noted, these attacks “highlighted the vulnerability of public infrastructure.” An official from the Dutch Government Information Service, Rimbert Kloosterman, remarked that the complexity and size of the government’s websites had… Continue Reading