nellie2 Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Is this a sign that we are winning the war against malicious attacks? I sincerely hope so.Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted for hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the Internet.Behind the scenes, computer scientists worldwide raced to cope with enormous volumes of data that threatened to saturate some of the Internet's most vital pipelines.Experts said the hackers appeared to disguise their origin, but vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea.The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for Web sites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said. Company officials did not immediately return telephone calls from The Associated Press.Among the targeted "root" servers that manage global Internet traffic were ones operated by the Defense Department and the Internet's primary oversight body."There was what appears to be some form of attack during the night hours here in California and into the morning," said John Crain, chief technical officer for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He said the attack was continuing and so was the hunt for its origin."I don't think anybody has the full picture," Crain said. "We're looking at the data."Crain said Tuesday's attack was less serious than attacks against the same 13 "root" servers in October 2002 because technology innovations in recent years have increasingly distributed their workloads to other computers around the globe.Source: CNN.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Can you imagine the money lost if "The Internet" was to go down?I tip my hat to those who are fighting these types of attacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Can you imagine the money lost if "The Internet" was to go down?Yea but , I don't think that would likely happen though , That is like trying to take out "Skynet" in Terminator 3 - rise of the machines... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Can you imagine the money lost if "The Internet" was to go down?Yea but , I don't think that would likely happen though , That is like trying to take out "Skynet" in Terminator 3 - rise of the machines...:lol: point taken..I'd imagine if more than 10 of those machines were to fail, it would be routed a different way. I am sure there would be some slow downs, but I do not think the internet can ever go away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 :lol: point taken..I'd imagine if more than 10 of those machines were to fail, it would be routed a different way. I am sure there would be some slow downs, but I do not think the internet can ever go away.I hope not. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 The solution is for Dubya to bomb South Korea, along with Iran, :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 No... the solution is to look after what we have and to educate those that don't know how to look after it. And for us to find a way to bring the criminals that cause these problems to justice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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