The war against hackers is a war that does not It ends, as the technicians of the sector well know. What it is What is certain is that the last battle against hackers is the Authority of Port System of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea has won. The one that in recent days has seen the temporary defeat of the Internet servers of other Italian port authorities, placed under check from DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks realized flooding the computers of port authorities with requests, traffic abnormal that slows down or paralyzes server performance.

"The attacks on the institutional site - explained the Secretary General of the AdSP of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, Matteo Paroli - lasted many days, but were blocked by Properly configured protection systems. The power of the attack - it has highlighted - is demonstrated by the fact that almost all the sites of the other AdSP have had prolonged blocks».

Starting last Friday, with continuity for Some days, attacks from hundreds of servers World traffic produced a sustained traffic of more than 10 million requests per hour, with peaks of 13 million per hour. The IT experts of the Tuscan Port Authority have countered the attack thanks to previously installed protection systems and promptly adopting additional security configurations in the more consistent attack phase. "To mitigate the Distributed Denial of Service attack - explained Paolo Scarpellini, Head of the Digital Transition, Technologies Area computer science and digital port of the institution, and systems technicians informative Maurizio Tonelli and Andrea Biondi - we had to adopt, and adapt, new countermeasures to ensure access to the site of normal traffic, while blocking or limiting the potentially harmful one".

The Tuscan port authority has specified that the attack, detected internally with monitoring systems, it had been reported all'AdSP also by the Postal Police, with which it had been signed a specific collaboration protocol.