TechHive: China suffers major DDoS attack on .cn domain

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China suffers major DDoS attack on .cn domain Aug 26th 2013, 14:10, by Michael Kan, IDG News Service China's Internet on early Sunday morning suffered a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that briefly disrupted and slowed access to sites in the .cn domain. The DDoS attack was the largest in history against the domain servers for China's .cn ccTLD (country code top level domain), according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which administers the domain. The first attack started Sunday around midnight Beijing time, and was then succeeded by a larger attack at 4 a.m, the CNNIC said in an Internet posting. A number of sites were affected, but Internet service to the sites had been gradually restored by 10 a.m. Sunday In this year's first quarter, China was the top source country for DDoS attacks, according to security vendor Prolexic. The U.S. was ranked second. It's unclear where the attack originated from or if it was still continuing. A CNNIC spokeswoman said on Monday it would update the public once more information was gathered. Chinese regulators have already launched unspecified measures to protect the domain system, while CNNIC has apologized for the disruption. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: china1-100026142-small.jpg

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