'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say

'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say He said the incident at X "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security." "I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of X that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added. "It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme. Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if X was targeted by what's known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where hackers flood a server with internet traffic to prevent users from connecting to a website. However, Ciaran Martin, professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government told the BBC that explanation was "wholly unconvincing" and "pretty much garbage." "We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with IP [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine ... Read full article.