Singapore market News: StarHub home broadband network was disrupted by legitimate traffic surge, not DDoS attack

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) says StarHub's home broadband system disturbances in Oct a year ago were brought about by a surge in authentic Domain Name System (DNS) movement, and not a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault as at first suspected. 

In a public statement on April 21, IMDA says its top to bottom examination, held together with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), "did not reveal any confirmation to propose that the reason for the episodes was a DDoS assault on StarHub's system framework". 

Rather, promote examination demonstrated StarHub's home broadband framework was over-burden due to a higher-than-common increment in movement to a great extent driven by real DNS asks. 

"The irregular disappointment of the DNS servers to react to a few solicitations brought about rehashed retries from influenced clients and could have exacerbated the circumstance," IMDA says. 

IMDA says it has cautioned StarHub over the occurrences, and won't dither to make sterner move ought to a comparative episode occur in future. 

IMDA takes note of that the telco has since found a way to relieve future dangers, including boosting its home broadband DNS server limit and improving activity checking. 

Be that as it may, it has requested StarHub to draw in an autonomous master to embrace an audit of its DNS and other related foundation. 

The disturbances a year ago influenced some StarHub home fiber broadband clients in a few sections of Singapore. 

Influenced clients experienced discontinuous challenges getting to the web for 130 minutes on Oct 24 and for 55 minutes on Oct 24. 

"We guarantee our clients and the controller that we will consistently survey our security stance and upgrade arrange flexibility in association with system and security suppliers," StarHub says in a media explanation on Friday. 

As at 1.15pm, shares of StarHub are exchanging level at $2.78.

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