{"id":194646,"date":"2017-01-16T10:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=194646"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:56:44","slug":"telkom-hit-by-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/194646-telkom-hit-by-ddos-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom hit by DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom was hit by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on 12 January 2017, which affected some Telkom Internet customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelkom immediately took the necessary steps on the network to alleviate the impact to customers,\u201d said Telkom spokesperson Jacqui O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom\u2019s contact centres advised affected customers to resolve the issue by terminating and re-establishing their PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) connections so that they are assigned a new session on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Affected customers could either power cycle their router or modem &#8211; power off and back on again &#8211; or disconnect an existing client connection and re-establish a new one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are confident the necessary actions have been taken and will continue to monitor our network in the best interest of our Internet customers,\u201d said O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/190510-new-ddos-attack-reaches-over-400gbps-and-200-million-pps.html\">New DDoS attack reaches over 400Gbps and 200 million pps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom was hit by a DDoS attack recently, but was quick to take the necessary steps to alleviate the impact on customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":146263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2242,35,109],"class_list":["post-194646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-ddos","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194770,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194646\/revisions\/194770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}