SHAME FOR MODI NOT TO BE WELCOMED BY HIS SOUTH AFRICAN COUNTERPART

WebDesk August 25, 2023 2 minutes read

South African news website says It faced cyber-attack after publishing report on Modi. According to Daily Maverick’s report, when Modi landed at the Waterkloof Air Force Base, he refused to leave the plane because a cabinet minister, rather than President Cyril Ramphosa, had come to welcome him. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is described as a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, network or website by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic,” it explained. “Several hours ago, the site suddenly went down. We picked it up very quickly and started identifying a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We investigated and found it was coming from a whole host of Indian servers,” said Daily Maverick’s security coordinator. Daily Maverick said that though the attack was ongoing, the publication had managed to put a firewall in place and put the website back up. “It was obvious that the purpose of this attack is to deny the people of India access to this story as no attempt was made to hide the source of the attack,” Daily Maverick’s editor-in-chief Branko Brkic said. “This left us with no option but to block the entire domain of India to protect the integrity of the site. “The website is currently not accessible from India. “Daily Maverick has been investigating ways to make the article accessible to India but the attack is so large, it’s proving difficult,” the publication stated.