Hackers mount widespread cyber attack Thursday, March 28, 2013 Unknown 0 Hackers mount widespread cyber attack By Bede McCarthy in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco Hackers have hit a European anti-spam group with a cyber attack so large that experts say it could slow down the internet itself.The original target was Spamhaus, which said it had been subject to large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for the past week. Such attacks overwhelm servers by bombarding them with spurious requests simultaneously from computers all over the internet. Hacking Hackers mount widespread cyber attack Hackers mount widespread cyber attack By Bede McCarthy in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco Hackers have hit a European anti-... Read more »