Hackers Try But Fail To Take Down The Internet
This just in from Gizmodo:
Stupid Hackers Try to Take Down the Internet, Predictably Fail
Silly hackers! You cannot destroy the internet! It’s a pretty basic premise, that because the internet is a distributed network it’s pretty insusceptible to being taken down wholesale by a small band of pockmarked, greasy nerds, but that’s just what they tried to do.
Did you notice? Neither did I.
Here’s more from InternetNews.com:
Internet users barely felt a ripple yesterday when hackers launched a concerted attack on several key Domain Name System (DNS) servers.
For a couple of hours, beginning late Monday and stretching into Tuesday, three of the 13 DNS servers came under fire, as hackers tried to overload the computers sitting at the top of the Internet’s chain of distribution. Users felt “maybe a fraction of a second delay,” Johannes Ulrich, CTO of SANS Internet Storm Center, told internetnews.com.
DNS servers run by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and UltraNet, which manages the .org domain, were affected by the attack, Ulrich said.
And this:
“The Internet didn’t crumble last night, which shows that the protection worked,” Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told internetnews.com.
Unlike a similar attack in 2002 that crippled nine of 13 DNS servers, the latest assault used many more zombie hosts, said Ulrich. Servers are more flexible now, and able to withstand much more strain.
Cluley, who likened a DNS attack to 20 hippos trying to get through a revolving door at the same time, also noted the irony the attack. The people who depend on the Web may have been the ones whose computers unknowingly tried to bring it down, he said.
We seem to be learning! Score 1 for the internet, 0 for the hackers!
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