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UK Labour Party says it has experienced a 'large-scale cyber attack'
- dijit 7y agoI would be interested if they could release all pertinent logs. I think it would be something interesting to spool through. For instance "large scale attack" makes me assume a DDoS, which is hardly the level of attack I'd expect to risk data exfiltration unless it is used as a distraction. So I'm not sure what "large-scale" means in this context; eitherway, pcaps plz.
- chme 7y agoIDK the details, but "large-scale" could also mean that they tried to attack multiple services/servers. And also probably a bit more dedicated and targeted that the normal password brute-forceing and vulnerability scanning that is going on all the time anyway.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoWhy post cyber attack, would you casually admit to the things you know and don't know to the general public? Any would be attacker could see what they had found, and make deductions as to what a successful undetectable attack might look like.
- jtylr 7y agoThe BBC are reporting it was a run of the mill DDoS attack.
- altacc 7y agoI suppose "large" is relative. The numbers for a DDoS attack can look large to someone with little experience (journalists, PR, small-time IT department, etc...) and the same numbers could be in inconsequential daily occurrence for a large scale provider.
- rozab 7y agoI don't see why they'd do that. A 'russian hacking' narrative would serve the parties interest, and while they won't sink to the level of actually insinuating that the attack was carried out by state actors (which seems very unlikely) there's no harm in letting the media do their thing.
- tkmo 7y agoIt was a denial of service attack caused by their sole voter that can afford a high bandwidth internet connection accidentally logging onto their website.
- dwardu 7y agoAn attack by the many, not the few.
- rezeroed 7y agoA socialism attack - everyone joins together to make the system collapse.
- Zenst 7y agoEven from a humour perspective your point is flawed - Under socialism, everybody would get an equal amount of packets making everybodies internet equal. Which begs the question - what is the average internet bandwidth per person upon the planet. Many without would add many 0 entries and by average, the mean, mode and medium values would be most interesting. I'd guestimate that many with internet would panic at dial up speeds today, balance that with many who would go from no internet to something. Alas, you can't please all of the people all of the time, but ideology and reality often cause friction.
- mehhh 7y agoSocialism is usually based on the principle of from each according to their production to each according to their need. In this case not everyone gets equal bandwidth. Those whos profession nessesitate more bandwith or those who require some internet connected medical device will probably be (democratically or otherwise) allocated more space than someone who uses the internet primarily for gaming or pleasure.
- rezeroed 7y agoRaises the question.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoJust a standard DDoS attack - that was handled by CloudFlare as designed.
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- jdauriemma 7y agoAutoplay sound warning
- faissaloo 7y agoFirefox disables this automatically now
- Zenst 7y agoIt would be nice to have some context and by that, a weekly data volume in attacks and types of attacks as well as normal visitors. May be a case of they scale and this is just normal. Equally the same data upon other parties, again over time and also be great to see previou election spikes in visitors and atatcks. But for many, this is just part and parcel of the state of play of the internet and politics upon that stage. I'd not rule this out as a tactical PR release to sway hearts and minds style approach. But then, I tend to be over pragmatic when it comes to anything political when the minutia is missing along with the context it brings.
- UglyToad 7y agoFrom what I understand of the story it started with an email sent to internal activists explaining why there were some performance issues with internal campaign tools. The attack was just a DDoS but once it hits the press it takes on a life of its own. Simplified technical details for a non-technical activist base get used to create a story, it's interesting to see how the sausage gets made but other than referring to the government body for cyber attacks as a matter of protocol I don't think there's much to it. As an aside Labour really do seem to have a pretty good technical team. Both the party and the loosely affiliated activist group Momentum have built a variety of campaign tools which have helped organise and mobilise large canvassing efforts. I've been impressed by what they've managed to put together. It sounds like they shared ideas and expertise with Bernie's campaign team in the US when it comes to building these tools.
- hayd 7y agoYeah, calling bull shit on this. Maybe they just don't know what they're talking about? Or maybe they're knowing exaggerating so as to talk about Russian interference in brexit... again. If you don't think putin would celebrate pm corbyn you're deluded.