There has been a cyberattack and we have no idea

It was last week, in the morning hours of Dec. 16, when the first cyberattack started. These attacks continued until Dec. 21 with some interruptions. 

The target of the cyberattacks was all internet traffic and frankly it was quite successful, as internet traffic slowed down nationwide. 

Yes, this was the first cyberattack in our history. Maybe those who are in the business knew all about it but the general public learned about this cyberattack through a statement that was released after everything happened.

As a matter of fact, the attack Turkey experienced is the type the United States goes through almost every day. But there is, however, a difference between them. In the United States or anywhere else in the world, these attacks are generally directed to specific companies or certain websites. 

On the other hand, Turkey was attacked nationwide; the target of the attack was web sites with the extension ".tr" in them. According to data provided by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), in Turkey there are approximately 370,000 websites with a ".tr" extension.

The general name of the attack toward Turkey is a "DDoS attack." Under this general name there are quite a number of types but they have a common feature that is quite simple: Some people from some places create extraordinary traffic as if they want to enter a certain website, a series of websites or the websites of an entire country. Because of this artificial traffic, those who genuinely want to go into a website or websites because they have business related to them either can absolutely not enter any of them or encounter a very serious slowdown.    

Let me give you this piece of information to better understand the size of the...