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Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 20:31:24 -0500
Yahoo told me on the phone that it's a malicious attack, and Global Center says the same thing. In Yahoo's words: "a coordinated distributed denial of service attack."
We've got a brief story up at: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.htmlThe problem apparently originated with a router. But what kind of attack could have taken the network offline for that period of time and not affected other Global Center customers? I mean, there had to have been a gaping security hole somewhere: It looks like the routes got lost for (nearly) all of the Yahoo network, but no other non-Yahoo sites...
-Declan
Current thread:
- Yahoo network outage Declan McCullagh (Feb 07)
- Re: Yahoo network outage Richard Irving (Feb 07)
- Re: Yahoo network outage Kai Schlichting (Feb 07)
- RE: Yahoo network outage Gentzler, Eric (Feb 07)
- Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Declan McCullagh (Feb 07)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Paul Ferguson (Feb 08)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Henry R. Linneweh (Feb 08)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Joe Shaw (Feb 08)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) NANOG Mailing List (Feb 08)
- RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Roeland M.J. Meyer (Feb 09)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Henry R. Linneweh (Feb 09)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Jim Mercer (Feb 09)
- RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Roeland M.J. Meyer (Feb 09)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Neil J. McRae (Feb 09)
- Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Feb 09)
- Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage) Declan McCullagh (Feb 07)