Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?

["Ahmad Elkhatib" <khatib () umich edu>]

a more in depth discussion about this here:

http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/02/internet-routing-insecuritypakistan-nukes-youtube/

-Ahmad

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com>
wrote:

> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877614-7.html?tag=nefd.top
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> February 24, 2008 12:17 PM PST
> YouTube blames Pakistan network for 2-hour outage
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> Posted by Greg Sandoval<http://www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7.html?authorId=116&tag=author>
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> [image: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080224/youtube.jpg]
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> *Updated, 9:40 p.m. to add YouTube's explanation of what caused outage.*
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> YouTube suffered a two-hour long, system-wide outage on Sunday that the
> company said was triggered by a network based in Pakistan.
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> "For about two hours, traffic to YouTube was routed according to erroneous
> Internet Protocols," said YouTube spokesperson Ricardo Reyes in a statement
> "Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined
> that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are
> investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent
> this from happening again."
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> The BBC reported <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm> that
> Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube may have inadvertently caused
> the outage. Earlier in the day, Pakistan's shutoff access to YouTube inside
> the country in response to the posting of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad,
> which have outraged many Muslims.
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