"GreatFire.org" which knows the site block situation in China received a cyber attack and the situation is unpredictable

ByIshikawa Ken

"Great Firewall (Golden Circle)In China where network regulations like "Google" and "Twitter" are regulated, there are many situations where it is not possible to use it. To grasp the state of Internet regulation in China, we will tell you the blocking situation of the network "GreatFire.org"Although it is a very useful service, it is currently undergoing cyber attacks by someone and it is a situation that requests support from all over the world.

We are under attack | GreatFire.org
https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2015/mar/we-are-under-attack

GreatFire.org is an official blog, revealing that someone is in an emergency to receive DDoS attacks. A cyber attack on GreatFire.org started on March 17, 2015, and a situation where 2.6 billion queues with the number of ordinary accesses of 2,500 times are required. This means that the bandwidth cost of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) server per day is now rising rapidly to 30,000 dollars (about 3.6 million yen). If Amazon claims a server usage fee without considering this abnormal situation of cyber attack, it says that the operation of GreatFire.org will be deadly damaged.


GreatFire.org preempts that "Who is this attack is unknown", and that attacks have increased over the past few months, and Chinese authorities manage cyberspaceCAC"GreatFire.org is a site of foreign anti-Chinese organization overseas" Since various certifications have been applied to the business partner of GreatFire.org, to intercept mail encrypted by someone It was discovered that camouflage work was found, and so forth.


GreatFire.org says "Amazon believes that it is on the side that supports freedom of speech and believes that it plays an important role in information access rights as a global leader of the Internet" We are calling on the Internet users around the world to provide technical support for server upgrades to prepare for further cyber attacks while expressing they want them to try.