Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack stymies vote in Miss Hong Kong beauty contest
Residents of the island, a Special Administrative Region of China, are up in arms after plans for a popular vote in the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant were sidelined by a distributed denial-of-service attack that knocked the voting system offline. The attack on Sunday evening swamped systems used for the vote with millions of bogus votes – far more than…