Their naivety doesn't end there, they also wish to sound as though they are cyber victims Matthew Webster writes;
'This week, the Labour Party said that their website had been subject to ‘large scale and sophisticated attacks which had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline. Every single one of these attempts failed due to our robust security systems.’
This sounds dramatic, and in today's political climate we should be concerned, shouldn’t we? Well, no. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCCS) has stated that the attack was no more than a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). This simply means that someone is flooding a website with meaningless traffic. It could be from an international superpower, an alien with superpowers or a teenager in their superman pyjamas.
DDoS attacks are common and equate to digital vandalism, rather than a sinister plot. The NCCS did not record it as a serious incident because a DDoS is part of doing business online. At worst it might slow down your website for a bit. Either way, web hosting companies are good at detecting and repelling such attacks.'
Sorry but no sympathy there.