It is really sad to speak about the hacking of Spamhaus. Spamhaus is an international organization that helps in working on spam and junk emails. This organization was formed in London and established a branch in Geneva in 1998. The organization works for the welfare of anti-spamming activities and acts as a filtering service.
Recently the great project of Spamhaus has been hacked by a Dutch web hosting organization in the list of their network. The name of that Dutch company is cyberpunkers which has a huge list of unwelcomed websites. According to the experts, cyberpunkers can affect Spamhaus being a very strong enemy. Another expert has declared that the attack on Spamhaus by cyberpunkers is a preplanned attack which cannot be taken as an incidental accident. James Blessing, a famous IT expert from the United Kingdom said about the cyber attack that it slowers down the speed of the internet, and it may become a reason for the irritation for the internet users who use high speed internet. James Blessing is a member of the UK internet providers Association (ISPA) council. James Blessing further explained his point of view regarding the hacking on Spamhaus that the effect may vary, and it depends on what and where the users want to use any website; the users who are habitual of getting quick results will surely notice the slow speed of the internet. The people who use online streaming or similiar internet programs are highly reporting complaints about the slow speed of internet.
The hacking was done on the 18th march, 2013 when Spamhaus added the Dutch web hosting company – cyberpunker. As Spamhaus is a very big, efficient and active anti-spamming company, that is why it has many enemies who always try to damage them in any condition. There are many other reported and observed attacks, in the past, which damaged Spamhaus very badly but they recovered soon, and their enemies try to defeat them again. This time the hackers didn’t attack the servers directly; rather they focused their attacks on the internet domain name system (DNS) servers and exploited them very harmfully. This is the reason why the experts consider this attack as a preplanned attack.
All people in the UK seem very much upset as the internet has become the most popular and important service in the United Kingdom. They are complaining about the slow speed of the internet. The IT expert, James blessing has received many complaints himself in which people have shared their feelings and showed lots of hate against the hackers. Blessing also got many suggestions from different hackers and software or network engineers about how Spamhaus can get back to work again. According to James Blessing, the Spamhaus servers are need to be shut down for some days, meanwhile, he and his team work on the current hacking attack. He also said that the hacking is done by very powerful hackers with high level of programming and those hackers who have done this must be arrested soon by police as they have done a very serious cyber crime.
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