Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
David McGuire and Brian Krebs, Washington Post 2002-10-23

The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations.

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-24
Metzelplik (1 replies)

The most interesting thing about the attack against the root DNS systems is that it probably wasn't all that sophisticated. Obviously the attackers were not much more than script kiddies since they failed to pull off their ultimate goal. Let's be completely realistic, if you want to create a de...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-24
Wimpie (1 replies)

You might be right, but somehow I cannot just believe a script kiddie would be able to launch an attack like this one as the basic ingredients to launch such an attack are probably not only the right software, but also some experience and some preperation. You indeed do not need to know a lot of net...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-25
Dallain

I won't include "extremely brilliant" in attacker's profile... any script kiddie with some ideas and some research could have done it with some preparation... but yes, I give you all the rights in stamping "extremely arrongant" in his profile. In this very moment, he or those who did it should be la...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-24
Anonymous (2 replies)

Amazin info.

Lets hope the attacks wont continues in a near future. The hackers are getting more sophisticated throught time and they are using other people systems for their goals.

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Future outlook... and realities of the world... 2002-10-24
Metzelplik

I am sure that an attack of this nature or greater is not that distant into the future... It is not so much that the attackers are becoming more sophisticated... the attacks don't need to be sophisticated (its like anything, the more sophisticated it is, the more than likely it is that something wi...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-24
Anonymous

Hackers = Good guys who help stop this sort of thing and improve security. (Whitehats). A lot of security vulnerabilites have been found by these guys and plugged because of them.

Cracker = Bad Guys who purposely attack systems for personal gain. (Blackhats)...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-24
Dallain

This news just read my mind. I was thinking lately about when such an attack would happen.

A DDOS attack can be executed by script kiddies without too much problem, and a serious hacker or anyone with a better knowledge of this business could really have done way better than this.

The only thing t...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-25
Anonymous (1 replies)

I fail to understand why this is considered the Largest Ever, or even in recent history. RedCode was a type of attack that infected at it's peak over 20,000 computers at once, and later versions attempted to ddos the whitehouse if i rember correctly. the only reason it didn't cripple the whitehouse ...

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-28
Anonymous

It doesn't matter who did it. What does matter when they succeed people in medical facilities are gonna die. the attacker over looked that medical facilities rely on the net.

WHY ISN'T THE NEWS COVERING THIS PART?!?!?!

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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever 2002-10-28
LFA

Maybe it was just a "TEST"...

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Atacker is russian hacker. 2002-10-29
Anonymous

Hi all! Atacker is russian hacker. You can read more information on russian version SecurityFocus - www.securitylab.ru.

http://www.securitylab.ru/?ID=33824...

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