Ziggo is again under attack from hackers. A DDoS attack has hit the provider through which 60 percent of the more than 3.2 million Internet customers of Ziggo “burden can get” from the malfunction. It’s all about customers in the former range of Ziggo, before the merger with UPC. Former UPC customers do not suffer from it
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A spokesman for the Internet company is the DDoS attack “even bigger” than Tuesday. “That’s why the measures we have taken when, at this time.” The technicians Ziggo are “busy” with attempts to resolve the issue. How long it will take, he can not say.
The spokesman pointed out that only humans suffer from the interference that want to surf to another website. For this, the DNS servers need to be attacked. “If people are already looking through Netflix, there’s no problem.”
Anonymous
In a video on Youtube demands hacker group Anonymous to hack at Ziggo and is said to be failure still may take several days. The video also said that Ziggo has been hacked because the company would deliver poor service. Ziggo has not yet responded to the video, but also the authenticity of the video has not been confirmed. The hacker group claims the Internet to restore some time to prove that it actually behind the hack is
Requirements Package
In a second video, the hacker group allows Ziggo to know to have a list of demands put together. As Ziggo, according to the hacker group better protect its customers against DDoS attacks. In addition, the company must give 25 percent discount to its customers’ due to poor security. Additionally, Anonymous says sorry to all customers of Ziggo that the failure load.
Notifications
According to the site allestoringen.nl had gotten there around 21:30, more than 12,500 messages, mostly Amsterdam, The Hague, Groningen, Utrecht, Tilburg, Rotterdam and Zwolle.
Tuesday Ziggo also struggled with a large and prolonged outage caused by a DDoS attack. In such an attack servers are bombarded with data so that sites get overloaded and the system no longer works properly. Who is behind the attack is not known and they are considered by experts also hard to figure out.
Resolution
Customers can solve the problem according to different ICT-ers through their unique DNS server to change 8.8.8.8. A brief statement:
– Open the network center
– Go to the Change adapter settings
– the wireless connection or LAN connection, click and click on the link
– Go to IP4
– The bottom appears:. ‘Use the following DNS server addresses. Click
– Fill in the following:. And 8.8.8.8 below: 8.8.4.4
– If all goes well, you now have internet again
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There is a problem going on making your internet possible not working properly. We are working on a solution. Sorry for the inconvenience. ^ RH
– Ziggo Webcare (ZiggoWebcare) August 19, 2015
I believe #ziggo again has a problem. That’s two days in a row. Should not become a habit, – (
– Marco Verhoef (marcopverhoef) August 19, 2015
Not again … hey Internet #Ziggo out again …
– Marcel Smits (MarcelSmitsNL) August 19, 2015
Another Ziggo failure in Utrecht . When you too
– Willem van Zeeland (WillemvZeeland) August 19, 2015
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