City of Dresden: Cyber attack repelled

The Saxon state capital Dresden has, according to its own information, repelled a cyber attack. During the attack on Thursday morning, access to the city government's website was severely restricted, a spokeswoman said. Dresden.de was eventually disconnected from the Internet as a precaution, she said. "All security measures to defend against the attack and prevent the spread of damage have taken effect," explained the head of the state capital Dresden's own IT operation, Michael Breidung. As of 3:30 p.m., all systems were again available without restrictions.

According to the information, the attack was a so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which so many accesses to the attacked systems were organized simultaneously that they no longer responded or could be manipulated from the outside.