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Swedish Police Experience DDoS Attacks Posted by Sean @ 10:52 GMT

Several of Sweden's websites experienced DDoS attacks yesterday, including the Swedish Police at polisen.se.

The sites weren't offline for very long and are accessible at present.

www.polisen.se/en

The attackers motives are currently unknown.

The Local has details in English:

"A number of major Swedish websites were rendered inaccessible on Thursday in what is believed to be a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The Swedish authorities have thus far had no success in locating the source of the attack."

And here are additional details in Swedish:

www.dn.se/ Attack mot polisens hemsida
www.idg.se/ �ven Polisen.se s�nktes
www.svd.se/ It-angrepp mot polisens webbsajt