Labour Party targeted in DDoS attack
Attack may be linked with complaints from activists that the portal for ordering election leaflets had failed
The alleged denial of service attack comes one month before Britain goes to the polls in the third General Election in less than five years
The Labour Party has today claimed to have suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. However, the Party claimed to have foiled the attack due to its "robust security systems" and reported...
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