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Vinmonpolet. Is not down and orders cannot be placed.
“Currently we have technical problems that make www.vinmonopolet.no and our application not work as it should. We are working hard to resolve the issues and we apologize for the inconvenience, “Vinmonopolet writes on Facebook.
– Our operations provider is working on the case and we hope the site will appear as soon as possible, but we cannot give an estimate of when it will happen, says Halvor Bing Lorentzen, information advisor at Vinmonopolet.
Soon after, Bing Lorentzen calls with more information.
– This is a coordinated attack on Vinmonopolet servers located at our operational provider, which is now working to route traffic.
It’s probably a denial of service attack, he says.
A denial of service attack works, in principle, so that many computers attack one by making a large number of requests at the same time. It then becomes a hindrance to legitimate traffic and often so much to deal with for the victim that the whole system stops working.
The case is being updated …
