The public-facing website for the UK’s National Crime Agency has wobbled today under a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. The NCA – dubbed Britain’s FBI – told The Register its site was “an attractive target” and that “attacks on it are a fact of life.” A spokesperson dismissed the skiddies’ tool of choice, and branded DDoS a “blunt form of attack which takes volume and not skill. It isn’t a security breach, and it doesn’t affect our operational capability.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register