Another cyber attack on Czech Television: Big problems during the hockey match Czech Republic – Switzerland – NEW TIME

On Friday morning, Czech Television is facing another cyber attack, which caused the outage of the ČT Sport website during the broadcast of the Czech-Switzerland hockey match from the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The television had to move the broadcast to the emergency site and broadcast part of the match from the recordingas she stated on Twitter. The news was brought by the Novinky.cz portal.

The public-speaking Czech Television wrote on its Twitter account that “right now it is facing a really massive cyber attack”, it asked the audience for leniency and added that it “does what it can”. “We recommend connecting to sporting events a few minutes before they start when the network is less busy“the television added.

From the ctsport.cz website, Czech Television moved the transmission to the emergency website sport-static.ceskatelevize.cz. The hockey match was not broadcast on the ČT Sport television channel, where the women’s biathlon sprint went. After the end of biathlon, the third third of the match was broadcast on the television channel ČT Sport.

CT is affected by cyber attacks by DDoS. The first outages were reported by television before the broadcast of the Olympic ceremony on Friday, February 4, and then on Saturday morning. The attacks are usually timed for some transmission with the participation of Czech athletes.

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is always the same. Hundreds of thousands of computers will start accessing a specific server at one time. He usually can’t handle such a large number of requests and “falls”. For ordinary users, this compromised page looks unavailable, writes Novinky.cz.

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