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Re: [News] Windows Zombies Attack Web's Key Infrastructure, Could Bring Internet to Its Knees

  • Subject: Re: [News] Windows Zombies Attack Web's Key Infrastructure, Could Bring Internet to Its Knees
  • From: Philip <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:46:54 GMT
  • In-reply-to: <6087289.FAWdI2Udug@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers

,----[ Quote ]
| Hackers launched a sustained attack last night against key root servers
| which form the backbone of the internet.
| | Security firm Sophos said that botnets of zombie PCs bombarded the
| internet's domain name system (DNS) servers with traffic.
| | "These zombie computers could have brought the web to its knees,"
| said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
`----


http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174383/zombie-botnets-attack-global

Some time this year, the Internet will probably be 'broken', thanks to
Windows.

Also on NPR today with audio story

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7244146


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