CRIME FW: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/23/02

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Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 09:03:12 PDT

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    Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/23/02
    
    October 22, Washingtonpost.com
    Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever. 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. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck
    the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all
    Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about
    an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.
    David Wray, a spokesman for the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection
    Center (NIPC), said the bureau is "aware of the reports and looking into
    it." DDOS attacks overwhelm networks with an onslaught of data until they
    cannot be used. According to security experts, the incident probably was the
    result of multiple attacks, in which attackers concentrate the power of many
    computers against a single network to prevent it from operating. Internet
    Software Consortium Inc. Chairman Paul Vixie said that if more servers went
    down, and if the hackers sustained their hour-long strike a bit longer,
    Internet users around the world would have begun to see delays and failed
    connections. Chris Morrow, network security engineer for UUNET, said "This
    is probably the most concerted attack against the Internet infrastructure
    that we've seen." DDOS attacks are some of the most common and easiest to
    perpetrate, but the size and scope of Monday's strike set it apart. Source:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html
    
    
    
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