Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said that there was minimal impact of global slowdown caused down by the massive cyber-attack (called "bazooka" attack) on spam-fighting company Spamhaus and the under-sea cable cuts on India.
Sibal told NDTV that the impact was limited to the BSNL services in the south and that too was in a small way. He said that there was no impact on north India.
Allaying the fears arising out of these developments which caused great impact on Europe, Sibal did not feel the need to issue any advisory saying it is done if there is a long term impact.
It all started when the Spamhaus Project which is an international organisation, based in both London and Geneva to track e-mail spammers and spam-related activity was attacked after it added a Dutch hosting organisation called Cyberbunker to its list of unwelcome internet sites.
Spamhaus said that it is the biggest attack ever it was subjected to. It said that many organizations are not open about the fact that they are attacked at all, let alone about techniques or traffic volumes used in the attack.
It said that that core internet infrastructure may be overwhelmed by the amount of traffic involved in an attack. When that happens, all traffic that passes through that part of the Internet is impacted. Compare it to a big highway: If a traffic jam gets big enough, the on-ramps will slow down and fill up, and then the roads to the on-ramps will fill up too.
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