Thursday, February 08, 2007
Internet Attacked! (Did Anyone Notice?)
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Frozen in timePosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Brian Krebs - Washington Post).
Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of "Safer Internet Day," a 40-country effort to raise awareness about computer and Internet security. But the day probably didn't feel too safe for the dozens of unheralded technologists responsible for defending the World Wide Web against one of the most concerted attacks against the Internet's core since a similar assault in 2002.
Details about the sources, size and methods used in the attack are still trickling in, but like the celebration of Safer Internet Day, it's not clear that anyone using the Web at the time even took notice. That's largely a good thing, and I'll explain why later in this post.
At around 7 p.m. ET on Monday, three of the Internet's 13 "root servers" -- the computers that provide the...
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Frozen in timePosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Brian Krebs - Washington Post).
Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of "Safer Internet Day," a 40-country effort to raise awareness about computer and Internet security. But the day probably didn't feel too safe for the dozens of unheralded technologists responsible for defending the World Wide Web against one of the most concerted attacks against the Internet's core since a similar assault in 2002.
Details about the sources, size and methods used in the attack are still trickling in, but like the celebration of Safer Internet Day, it's not clear that anyone using the Web at the time even took notice. That's largely a good thing, and I'll explain why later in this post.
At around 7 p.m. ET on Monday, three of the Internet's 13 "root servers" -- the computers that provide the...
Read More...
