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Internet takes a hard hit from hacker

Published February 7th, 2007 in Hackers

I must say, there was no escaping this story. Ever since I woke up this morning, it has been discussed on virtually every news medium. In the past week, there were threats spreading around the Web in regards to the Internet being “strangled”. Well, through Denial of Service attacks, it looks like a hacker did just that.

A denial-of-service attack apparently overwhelmed two of the thirteen root domain name servers early Tuesday morning, according to data collected by Internet infrastructure service RIPE NCC.

The attack caused the G and L servers to fail to respond to at least 90 percent of queries, according to the RIPE data. Two other root servers also appeared to have suffered from dropped traffic, and the Associated Press reported that a third server had been overwhelmed by the attack.[more]

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