"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown
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| In August 2003, nearly 50 million homes in the northeastern U.S.
| and neighboring Canadian provinces suffered from a loss of power
| after early warning systems failed to work properly, allowing a
| local outage to cascade across several power grids. A number of
| factors contributed to the failure, including a bug in a common
| energy management system and the MSBlast, or Blaster, worm which
| quickly spread among systems running Microsoft Windows,
| eventually claiming more than 25 million systems.
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http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11465
DNS root servers and DNSSEC examined
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| ...an over-regulated environment in the DNS market (the ICANN monopoly,
| which it shares with registries) could hold back improvements such as
| the security promised by DNSSEC.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/dns_root_server.html
Related:
EveryDNS, OpenDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack
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| The last time the Web mob (spammers and phishers using botnets)
| decided to go after a security service, Blue Security was forced
| to fold and collateral damage extended to several businesses,
| including Six Apart.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html
Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers
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| 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.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174383/zombie-botnets-attack-global
Last week:
Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks
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| He said more than 1 million computers worldwide have been used in
| recent weeks to attack Estonian government and business Web sites
| since a dispute arose with Moscow over Estonia's moving of a
| Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/estonia.cyber.attacks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
More related (and older) news:
State Department got mail and hackers
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| A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last
| summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a
| mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S.
| government's network.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_hi_te/hackers_state_department
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