Northwest Iowa — If you have internet through Premier Communications, your service may have had a hiccup Sunday night.
Premier officials say that some of their customers experienced intermittent internet connectivity Sunday night. Premier’s Chief Technical Officer Frank Bulk tells us they were on the receiving end of a high volume DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.
Bulk tells us what a DDoS attack is.
He says that someone out there sent that traffic maliciously. He helps us speculate as to why someone would do such a thing.
Premier Communications’ Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Scott Te Strote says that they don’t know how many customers were affected. He says it wasn’t in any particular geographic area or town, but it affected a subset of their network.
They tell us the malicious overload of Internet traffic caused some of their customers to experience brief and/or intermittent Internet outages Sunday evening. They say the high rate of malicious traffic dropped off by 8:15 p.m., and that mitigation steps were put into place, so that things returned to normal shortly thereafter.
