Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

The Washington Post ^ | 10-23-02 | David McGuire and Brian Krebs

[EggsAckley]

Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

By David McGuire and Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 22, 2002; 5:40 PM

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

Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.

[redhead]

"Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said."

Would this explain why Free Republic was so s-l-o-o-o-o-w on Monday?

[EggsAckley]

That was my thought, too. But as I recall, the FR slow-down was in the mid-morning (West Coast) so t I don't think this was the problem. By 5pm Eastern, I wasn't on line much, so I don't know what was happening. I do know that I have been bumped off the net more this week than in the whole ten years I've been on line.

[heartwood]

My mother was told by a tech support person that there was a problem near Princeton, and that problems there were common, but not usually this bad.

[tubebender]

When I "saw" this on the radio this morning I thought he said AM and I said to myself, so that explains Mondays woes here. Maybe I assumed he said AM.

[edwin hubble]

CHINA...yes, China

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http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/00/mil_c4i_101100b_j.shtml

10/11/00
China Threatens 'Electronic Pearl Harbor' Attack on U.S.

NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000

Nations lacking military muscle could create an "electronic Pearl Harbor" that could defeat the U.S. by using electronic warfare to cripple America’s high-tech-dependent armed forces, an official Chinese report claims.

In the report, "The U.S. Military's Soft Ribs and Strategic Weaknesses," which analyzed America’s military doctrines, the strategies and tactics that Beijing could use against the U.S. were revealed by the official Chinese Xinhua news agency.

According to the authoritative American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), the Beijing document explained how China or any other country could use electronic warfare against the U.S. -- more ... see link above

[goldstategop]

We're still here. The attack on the Internet is another reminder however, life has no guarantees.