by paganinip on June 23rd, 2014

 

 

Largest DDoS attack hit PopVote, Hong Kong Democracy voting website.  Experts at CloudFlare observed a three hundred gigabits per second DDoS attack.

The largest ever and most severe Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in the history has recently hit the online democracy poll promoting opinion on the upcoming Hong Kong elections. The system under attack is the PopVote, an online poll platform managed by The University of Hong Kong’s Public Opinion Program, by Saturday the system more than half a million votes in less than 30 hours in the unofficial referendum. Full Article.