Iran says foils cyberattack targeting internet providers

Iran repelled a cyberattack on Saturday that disrupted the country's internet services for an hour, a telecommunications ministry official said."At 11:44 (0814 GMT) a distributed denial-of-service attack disrupted the internet services of some mobile and fixed operators for an hour," tweeted Sajad Bonabi.A DDoS attack involves overwhelming a target's servers by making a massive number of junk requests.