Friday, April 6, 2012

Global Internet is slow and may be the fault is of Anonymous

Well we were wondering what the delay with pages opening today on internet. It can be the fault of Anonymous, a collective of hackers more problematic in recent times. The members of the group announced today that they are promoting a grand attack several sites hosted in China. As a consequence, other networks around the world were affected.


On the website of Internet Traffic Report gives a clear picture how the situation is alarming in the present moment. For servers in Asia there is packet loss at the home of 38% (when I started writing this article was 33%). North America - where multiple servers are located, including the TB - also shows packet loss above normal: 24% at the time of this writing.

Although the site of the institute have Europe with loss of data packets at the home of 9%. Australia (or Oceania) and South America were not affected by this global network congestion, possibly caused by anonymous.


Report Internet Traffic Report
For those unaware, the average packet loss is to determine how much data, in percentage terms, are lost in a connection between a computer and the server where it seeks information. The higher, the worse because it takes longer to access a site.

Account in Twitter anonymous staff makes fun of the situation. In them a tweet linking to the Mashable article on the subject and comment that there are "evil laugh". There really is no way of knowing the level of involvement of hacker collective in this situation.

The internet company Akamai, which specializes in distributing content through its network infrastructure, detected 35% increase in attacks on internet servers in the last 24 hours. The chart below, provided by the company, confirms the situation quite dire.


Data from Akamai
"Dear Chinese government, you are not infallible. Today websites have been hacked. Tomorrow will be his vile regime will fall. "That's the message that appears in some of the sites intercepted by Anonymous, according to some sources.