Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Monday's Attack on Internet Largest Ever Read up, hackers only blitzed for about an hour, so no major problems were noticed. However, if they kept it up, shit could have gone crazy. American computer nerds? Unemployed techies? Chinese hackers? Al-Qaeda? The FBI has no clue who did it...

Here's a bit: "The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations. Around 5:00 p.m. EST, a 'distributed denial of service' (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet..."

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