UK hackers attack Falklands War game
Argentine company Dattatec.com this week launched a “map” for popular online first person shooter game Counter Strike pitting Argentine police against British terrorists. The game’s developers said they had repelled a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack coming mostly from computers in the UK.
Fernando Llorente, a spokesman for the Rosario-based company, said: “Two of our websites were attacked using DDoS during the day, with hackers trying to saturate our server’s connexion.
“The attack was 5 Gbps in strength – the equivalent of 5,000 PCs connecting to the sites at the same time every second – but our technical team was able to block it effectively.”