A worst attack on internet servers was witnessed on Monday when three of the Internet’s 13 DNS “root servers” (responsible for controlling global internet traffic) were intensely smacked by a remote-controlled network of thousands of zombie computers. The so-called “denial of service” attack was intended to engulf many of the root servers with colossal amounts of traffic.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at UK anti-virus firm Sophos stated the attack to be “the most serious attack against these domain name servers.” Last time such kind of attack hit the servers in 2002 when all the 13 root servers fell prey to it and the internet traffic came down radically.
The investigation in under process and some reports have traced the attacks to be from Korea but Cluley cited that this is not a sign that all the offenders are from Korea.
Via: newscientisttech
