Belgium's Government Network Goes Down After Massive DDoS Attack 26
Most of the Belgium government's IT network has been down today after a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked offline both internal systems and public-facing websites. From a report: The attack targeted Belnet, a government-funded ISP that provides internet connectivity for Belgian government organizations, such as its Parliament, educational institutes, ministries, and research centers. The incident, which Belnet is still dealing with at the time of writing, is believed to have impacted the activities of more than 200 Belgian government organizations. Impacted services include My Minfin, the government's official tax- and form-filing portal, but also IT systems used by schools and universities for remote learning applications. In a tweet today, the Belgium Justice Department also reported disruptions but did not go into details.
retaliation? (Score:5, Funny)
Retaliation by France because of that farmer that moved the border? https://entertainment.slashdot... [slashdot.org]
Re:retaliation? (Score:4, Funny)
Nooobody expects the French retaliation!
Belgium! man Belgium! (Score:2)
This is one Belgium level of a Joojoo flop of networking engineering.
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I don't care how bad it was. There's no need for such vulgar language!
Seems justified (Score:3, Funny)
That's what you get for fucking around with the French border, I suppose. [slashdot.org]
French hackers not asleep at the wheel (Score:2, Funny)
They were ready for Belgium to make a move like this [slashdot.org].
Two stories about Belgium? (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Two stories about Belgium? (Score:2)
No, Luxemburgish people too!
All 3 of em!
(They used to use Belgian money etc.)
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I think it's mostly other people's money, just temporarily parked there to evade taxes.
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No, Luxemburgish people too! All 3 of em!
And here's one of those three [youtube.com].
The other two are even stranger.
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This is a coordinated spread of misinformation by the people behind the Belgium hoax, so that when you search for Belgium it appears to be a real country where stuff happens. Here's a short description about the urban legend known as "Belgium" [zapatopi.net].
Affecting other sites? (Score:2)
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Re: Affecting other sites? (Score:2)
For all the ... zero people who care about Reddit yet are on this site?
What, all three servers?! (Score:2)
:D
Hey, it's not like they're Luxemburg!
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Find then kill the culprits (Score:1)
Attacks on infrastructure are acts of war and it's time lives were taken in reprisal. Reprisals should be fatal because nothing less gets the point across.
When laws cease to protect civilization they may be adjusted to be useful or temporarily dispensed with. Humans only respect what they fear and those hallucinating otherwise are weakling enablers.
Attacks will continue forever so systems must be hardened defensively while enemies must be hunted then destroyed. This idea will not seem harsh when their attac
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I never understood we don't just start selectively severing the internet connections of these various state actors at a country level. You can't kill all of the links but surely you can start to squeeze them enough to make your point.
It's easy to help a man see your argument if you have his nuts in a vice at the time.
Congo revenge (Score:1)
China connection (Score:5, Interesting)
Samuel Cogolati, an MP of Belgium’s environmentally focused political party Ecolo, noted that the time of the attack seemed to coincide with a parliamentary committee meeting on whether to accuse China of genocide regarding its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, though there was other business on the agenda, we're told.... A Uyghur woman was expected to tell Belgian politicians what she experienced in China's camps, according to Cogolati.
could be COVID related (Score:2)
There were a lot of incidents recently in Belgium with students launching DDOS attacks on the routers of their own schools to disrupt the obligatory online classes because of COVID. Now there are exams. The spokesperson of BelNet said they are looking in that direction (too). BelNet is the historic backbone of the Belgian internet, government + academics (high schools).
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