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Cyber attack on Lithuanian Parliament - expert comment
April 2016 by Aftab Afzal, SVP & GM EMEA at NSFOCUS IB
During a gathering of World Congress of Crimean Tatars, and an international
conference on Mass Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Crimea on Monday April 11, the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) website suffered a cyber attack. Cerniauskas also confirmed that the so-called DDoS attack had been carried out from at least 10,000 computers from each continent *.
Aftab Afzal, SVP & GM EMEA at NSFOCUS IB, comments:
"We often see and hear of similar types of DDoS attacks targeting major political
events that have an online element which, in today’s terms, mean most major events.
Online political events and parliamentary services are subjected to prolonged and
multi vector cyber attacks. Waiting for an event before implementing protection is a
high risk strategy, as anything deployed in a hurry will invariably have limited
results and, more often than not, will have a wider impact. Service denigration is
common without correct scoping, provisioning, learning and configuration. We always
advise our clients and partners to explore and build protection services in plenty
of time to ensure they can withstand even the most complex attacks without service
impact."
* http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/lithuanian-parliament-under-cyber-attack/
http://www.baltictimes.com/cyber_attack_on_lithuanian_parliament_over/
