Weak Link and NDP

NDP: The voting that chose Tom Mulcair as the New Democratic Party's leader was besieged by a "distributed denial of service" attack, which bombards a server with repeated attempts at communication to try to slow it down or crash it altogether. , according to CBC. At the time, neither the NDP, nor Scytl, the company that provided the online voting service, would explain beyond saying it was a denial of service attack. An online attack that delayed the results of the NDP's 2012 leadership vote succeeded because it hit the party's website, not the site of the company running the online vote, a company representative says. The process was delayed by several hours and left many delegates complaining they couldn't access the site to cast their ballots. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.