edNET Internet Outage: DDoS Attack Disrupts Services for Users

Most of the customers of Edinburgh business ISP edNET were left without Internet services yesterday after it experienced a serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. edNET began to experience what it described in an email to users as a "catastrophic network failure" at around 8am yesterday.. . . Most of the customers of Edinburgh business ISP edNET were left without Internet services yesterday after it experienced a serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. edNET began to experience what it described in an email to users as a "catastrophic network failure" at around 8am yesterday. This resulted in most of edNET's users experiencing difficulties sending email or browsing the Internet throughout yesterday.

Engineers confirmed that the problem was a result of a DDoS attack on its network, and were able to restore services after applying filters to its network nodes, and asking upstream service providers to do the same thing.