Swedish DoS!!!

November 2009

Attack Hits Swedish Signals Intelligence Agency’s Website - Possibly a protest to recent Internet traffic monitoring activities.The website of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (Forsvarets Radioanstalt) has been the target of a prolonged denial of service (DoS) attack this week. There is some speculation that the incident was caused to protest to the agency’s new role of intercepting and monitoring Internet traffic passing through Sweden. Forsvarets Radioanstalt (FRA) is an intelligence agency of the Swedish government, subordinated to the country’s Ministry of Defence. The DoS attack on FRA’s website began on November 2 and according to a report from the Pingdom uptime monitoring service, extended well into November 3 and 4. This type of attack involves overloading a server with bogus requests until it is unable to process legit ones. The total downtime suffered was of almost 29 hours, but according to an official announcement (in Swedish), it did not affect the agency’s work.