HACKER ATTACKS ON CRO INTERNET SPACE ARE BEING BLOCKED SUCCESSFULLY

ZAGREB, May 3 (Hina) - Hacker attacks on Croatia's Internet space, particularly Croatian Telekom's (HT) Internet provider HThinet, which started 12 days ago, have been subsiding and are being successfully blocked, HThinet's network specialist Renata Stefic told reporters in Zagreb on Thursday. The Internet in Croatia is operating without problems and HT has been detecting and blocking attacks in cooperation with other Croatian Internet providers and its foreign partners Seabone and Deutsche Telekom. It has been established that the attacks have been coming from more than 1,000 addresses from all over the world and detecting the attacker in such cases is very difficult, Stefic added. The attacks have been reported to the Croatian Interior Ministry, which cooperates with the Interpol on such cases, Stefic said. The attacks did not cause direct financial damage in Croatia but damage has been caused to the users who were unable to fully use Internet services, she said. Hackers attacked the Croatian Internet space on Saturday, April 21. The main target was HThinet, but some other Croatian Internet providers were attacked as well. The type of the attacks, which caused problems in establishing links to the world, was Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), which is believed to be one of the strongest hacker attacks. During a DDOS attack, large quantities of data are sent from a number of locations in the world to the target, causing the overloading of routers and preventing the normal flow of data. (hina) rml