Super-sized internet attack

A report that the internet had been slowed by what was described as the biggest Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS) attack in history proved to be the BBC tech team's most read story of the year.
The assault on the Spamhaus Project's websites, mailservers and nameservers was said to have peaked at 300 giga bit per second's worth of data.

A London-based teenager and a 35-year-old Dutchman were later arrested in connection with the incident.
However, Kaspersky Lab's claim that other users would have suffered slow downloads as a consequence has
become a matter of controversy with some claiming any delays were more likely to have been caused by an
unrelated damaged data cable.
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