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DDoS Attack Targets UK Labour Party Weeks Ahead of Election [needs js]
The UK's Labour Party has confirmed a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted its Web services weeks ahead of a national election on December 12, party and security officials report.
Adversaries overwhelmed Labour's digital platforms with malicious traffic, according to Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, which was notified following the incident, Reuters reports. The incident was not successful, a spokesman says, and the matter is now closed. Party officials say the DDoS attempt failed due to its "robust security systems" and no data breach occurred.
BBC reporting states:
The BBC's Gordon Corera has been told Monday's attack was not linked to a state. Earlier, a Labour source said that attacks came from computers in Russia and Brazil.
Our security correspondent said he had been told the first attack was a low-level incident - not a large-scale and sophisticated attack.
A National Cyber Security Centre spokesman said the Labour Party followed the correct procedure and notified them swiftly of Monday's cyber-attack, adding: "The attack was not successful and the incident is now closed."
[...] The BBC has confirmed that Labour is using software by the technology company Cloudflare to protect its systems. The US-based company boasts it has 15 times the network capacity of the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded, meaning it should be able to absorb any deluge of data directed at one of its clients.
[...] Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday's cyber-attack was "very serious" and also "suspicious" because it took place during an election campaign. "If this is a sign of things to come, I feel very nervous about it," he said.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday November 14 2019, @07:14PM (1 child)
International forces participating in national elections is inherently destabilizing to peace. Probably more so than even land grabs. Suddenly your politics are literally byzantine, where open assassination of a leader can bring an outside party's pet faction into ascendance. It can't not escalate.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 14 2019, @10:44PM
There should totally be a law against that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 14 2019, @08:04PM (4 children)
Of course, it had to be the boogeyman Russians.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Thursday November 14 2019, @09:02PM (3 children)
No, I mean, there are so many more state actors with the means, ways and mentality to do this sort of thing who benefit from a significantly weaker EU when Boris inevitably somehow gets the UK out of the EU.
Giving the UK a say in the sort of brexit that they will be part of, forsake the thought! We said yes once, quite a while back, and it was to an overwhelmingly rosier picture, so God forbid we have an informed decision where our say counts for something.
Perish the thought while having a shot of glorious Russian vodka for no related reason!
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Friday November 15 2019, @01:33AM (2 children)
Nostrovia! Now tell me again who will benefit from the break up of the EU, Comrade.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 15 2019, @03:27AM
The UK? US? Everyone but the taker countries of the EU?
(Score: 4, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday November 15 2019, @11:12AM
Perhaps you think it's coincidence that Boris Johnson (Mr Brexit himself) has just this week suppressed a report into Russian meddling in the 2016 referendum. Right before an election.
No, nothing suspicious about that at all. Carry on voters, nothing to see here.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday November 15 2019, @12:42PM
The english speaking world is under attack by people who want to turn the english speaking world into feuding vassal states.
The philosophy of John Locke is under attack also, by proximity.
The labor party is the force of progress in the UK, so all of the forces who hate progress and new ideas, and fairness, etc, have a motive.
Russia and Israel have both supported the right wing in the UK through their overt and covert actions, and the dirty tricks and propaganda against the british labor party, exactly like against Bernie in the United States, are stacked a mile high at this point. The only two politicians in these countries who dare talk openly about limiting israeli expansion and creating a palestinian state, also most likely to demand return of crimea/donbass.
Anyone in the 'western world' who is still voting for Trump or Johnson, republican or brexit/tory, is a person who either hates the 'western' world or does not understand what it is.
The language itself is under attack, not just the internet. I write about this on my expanded definitions page, where you should be able to see how some people are trying to change the meaning of words so it is more difficult to describe what they are doing.
https://jmichaelhudson.net/important-definitions/ [jmichaelhudson.net]