Hackers Stage Massive Internet Attack Against Root Name Servers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Wondering why your recursive WHOIS lookups were failing
earlier today?

Via CBS News (AP).

[snip]

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.

[snip]

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/06/tech/main2440487.shtml

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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