DDoS attack hits Sweden police site

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p2pnet news view Crime | P2P:- Swedish authorities still haven’t discovered who was behind a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which rendered a number of major Swedish websites, including the country’s police site, inaccessible yesterday. “We’re the victims of an ongoing DDoS attack,” The Local has spokesperson Linda Widmark saying, “shortly before the site, polisen.se, became accessible again at around 5pm”. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) was on “full alert” following a 12-hour period in which news organizations and police have both been targeted, says the story.