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Hackers Attack Major DNS Servers

Published by Josh Foster February 7th, 2007 in Internet.

Hacker attack: in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002, DNS root domain servers were overwhelmed For a brief period of time yesterday, hackers overwhelmedthree major root domain servers in the USA. The attack was considered to be one of the most significant since a major barrage in 2002.

“There was what appears to be some form of attack during the night hours here in California and into the morning,”explained John Crain, chief technical officer for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The attempts are still underway and the hackers have not yet been located.

“I don’t think anybody has the full picture,” Crain added. “We’re looking at the data.”

Thehackers appear to have targeted UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for websites ending in “.org” and some other suffixes, said experts.

And the reasons are as yet unknown. Duane Wessels, a researcher at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis thinks that the motive was benign. “Maybe to show off or just be disruptive; it doesn’t seem to be extortion or anything like that,” he opined.

Source: ZDNet

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