Root servers in huge Net attack
p2pnet.net News:- Enormous volumes of data threatened to saturate major areas of the Net’s during a massive, coordinated attack on root servers, yesterday.
“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,” says Associated Press.
Although the hackers “appeared to disguise their origin,” and the motive for the attack wasn’t clear, “vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea,” says the story.
Among the root servers that manage global internet traffic were ones operated by the US Defence Department and the internet’s primary oversight body, says The Inquirer, adding:
“The attack was less serious than attacks against the same 13 ‘root’ servers in October 2002 because the servers have increasingly distributed their workloads around the globe.”
Also See:
Associated Press – Internet subjected to major attack, February 7, 2007
The Inquirer – South Korean hackers wallop the Internet, February 7, 2007
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