A shorter attack won't make as many news headlines, either.
More likely this more politically motivated and backed up by money and more capable groups
Botnets are services now, a business. They gain customers by their effectiveness and resilience.
For $$50-100 you can deny service to a lot of big sites and services.
When it rains dams fill up. The water is drained into shafts with turbines, and electricity is generated.
However, even though we are big on hydroelectricity percentage wise I’m not sure it’s all that vast an amount of electricity on a global scale. We are a pretty small country after all.
According to Wikipedia, the Norwegian electricity sector had 40.26 GW installed capacity as of 2021 and was producing 157.113 TWh in the same year. [1]
Great Britain had 74.8 GW installed capacity in 2023 and was producing 292.7 TWh in 2023. [2]
France was producing 537.7 TWh in 2020. [3]
Germany was producing 488.5 TWh in 2024. [4]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_in_Great_Britain
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
Up to the moment it has not been the operation adopted which would make it weird.
On who would do it then, anyone who benefits from instability. From corporations trying to sell flocked uped sytems, politicians, etc.
There is one south american country who was attacked exactly this way before their head of the government was kidnapped.
> ID-Porten: When One Gateway Controls Everything
> At the center of the disruption is ID-porten — the national login gateway operated by Norway's Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), the government agency responsible for public-sector digitalization. ID-porten functions as the single sign-on portal through which Norwegian citizens authenticate themselves to access public digital services.
It seems to be a corporate service provider that's a dependency for many other services.
The identity portal is administered by the department for digital services, but hosted at a commercial provider, Vivicta (formerly TietoEvery, formerly Tieto and Every - Consulting companies from Finland and Norway).
Ed: I'm guessing yes?
https://vayla.fi/-/new-public-transportation-travel-card-sys...
> Det har siden kl. 01 mandag 3. august pågått et tjenestenektangrep (DDoS) som rammer ID-porten som driftes hos Digdirs driftspartner Vivicta.
> Since 0100 hours Monday August 31st there's been an ongoing DDoS attack which affects the ID-Portal which is run/hosted by DepDig's (Department of digital services') service provider Vivicta.
(My translation)
Ed: just realized Vivicta is TietoEvery with a haircut and new shoes:
Also something designed to withstand something does not imply it survives other somethings.
Not saying it was not who you think it was, Im just saying it does not have enough information yet to be the only explanation or at least the most obvious one.
Hey, hey
Did you know
Multiple things can in fact, be bad
Being invaded by Nazi Germany and days later by their ally, Russia was example of such case.
What you linked does not change at all that being invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union was absolutely awful and both were clearly evil.
(and if you want to start oppression olympics, then yes: what Germany and Russia did was far worse than what Poland did, for that matter what Ukrainian OUN UPA did was far worse than what Poland did)
Since you’re such a history buff, what did Russia promise when Ukraine got rid of their nukes?
Russia is the official successor state of the Soviet Union, the nukes never belonged to Ukraine in the first place. It was Ukraine that first attacked LPR and DPR in 2014. It was Ukraine that forbid Russian language, culture, church, etc... to Russians living in eastern Ukraine. By the way, Odessa will return to Russia.
Sure, sure a fresh "anon" account.
Russia got attacked by their ally, Nazi Germany. After 87 years ago in 1939 they invaded together Poland.
> Really sad.
Yeah, Russia going on to win WW II was quite sad. Admittedly better than Nazis winning but pity they have not both lost.
> contrary to the agreements after the fall of the Soviet Union
which supposed agreements? Were they any more binding than Budapest Memorandum?
> Russia said for decades that Ukraine in NATO is unacceptable.
And Russia in Ukraine is unacceptable for us.
Russia, as a hostile nation not interested in participating in global peace, doesn’t get to decide such things.