New bad news hits the now many thousands of demobilized children and their parents.
B. T. can tell that the website, which school children use to make matematikopgaver from home, have been hit by hard attacks, since the schools two weeks ago closed down due to coronavirussen. It helps to give longer waiting time and possible abuse of dataoplysninger.
more Specifically on attacks against the website MatematikFessor.dk.
‘Harassment’ and ‘deep criminal’, says the website’s founder and ceo, Kasper Holst Hansen.
“There are basically talk about the fact that someone put a lot of servers around to try to come in on our side, and then it swims over. It’s like having too much water in a bath, then wet over it,” he says.
Kasper Holst Hansen reports that the website for two weeks ago had about 70,000 users.
But in a short time is the number of users exploded. More specifically, it has MatematikFessor.dk now about 200,000 daily users.
And the website’s users are not the only one to feel the consequences of hacker attacks the last time.
No, actually also has the formal system, as the pupils, parents and staff use during all public institutions and educational institutions, has been the subject of attacks.
“When all the children started with having to be in school from home, as it was uni-login-system, which started to have problems. They had to first crunch, and then they were subjected to an attack,” says Kasper Holst Hansen, and adds:
“They have said to us that they might have suspected, it could hit the other. And as soon as it began to hit us, we could see that now they have gone on to the next one in the queue with many users.”
And the people behind the attacks must not get away with exploiting the situation.
Kasper Holst Hansen informs that his company has in recent days twice has reported the attacks to The Police.
“This is harassment, and we don’t know who it is, so we have to say that we will not find ourselves in. I do not know whether the police do more about it, but we can look ourselves in the mirror, and say, we have done all we like could,” he says.
One thing is that the waiting time framework students and parents to do math from home.
For the website it can also give a bad business, if the customers seems to be to use the page, because it often is down, or the wait is long.
“It is pisseirriterende, you have to put the shield up. It is the one part. The other part is that there is this queuing system, and it is to be able to cope with the peak load,” he says.
Kasper Holst Hansen hope, however, that students, parents and teachers will later understand what the website have been exposed.
“I can well understand that people get annoyed when they find that they are put in the queue, but when you get to the other side, and it goes up for people, how many attacks we have been exposed to, and how difficult it has been to deal with, so I think actually, they will say, ‘well, you have proven, you can drive business’,” says the founder.
