The latest (from the Associated Press):
Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.Experts said the hackers appeared to disguise their origin, but vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea.
Redirected from Iran, no doubt! (Talking point submitted by White House.)
The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for Web sites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said.
The story said that while the attack wasn't noticeable to most Internet users, computer scientists around the globe worked frantically to prevent the data bombardment from crashing the computers that handle Internet traffic. Looks like the good guys won this round.
One thing I wonder, though, is why we don't see more of these attacks on Internet root servers. It looks like the last big one was more than four years ago. Maybe there are attempts all the time and we just don't hear much about it.
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