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Swedish authorities have few leads in their investigation of a massive denial-of-service attack on Thursday that downed about 40 websites belonging to police and media outlets. According to The Local, the attacks flooded media IT development firm Adeprimo with some 400,000 requests per second, compared with the 800 requests …

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  1. Cliff

    Surely not the first to think...

    All your Basefarm are belong to us?

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  2. frank ly
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    Disastrous Disaster Planning

    "All of the media companies affected rent server space from Swedish IT service provider Basefarm."

    All the media companies affected shared a basket into which they put their eggs.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    The question is not who, but why?

    see title

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  4. Winkypop Silver badge
    Coat

    Mamma Mia!

    No internet?

    At least people could still Ring Ring the Police

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Thank God

    no pron sites affected

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  6. Marvin the Martian
    IT Angle

    "well executed"

    Is there a global X-factor type judging panel on DDoSs and other malarkey, with possible sarky comments? That would be illuminating.

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