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Re: Hackers Stage Massive Internet Attack Against Root Name S ervers
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:20:12 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
Via CBS News (AP). Experts said the hackers appeared to disguise their origin, but vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea.S. Korea eh? So does this mean that S. Korea has the most zombies, or that N. Korea doesnt have an Internet of their own and its easiest to tap into their neighbor to the south when trying to disrupt E commerce/Testing out their E warfare?
My guess: Since South Korea is quite ahead of most of the world in high-speed residential broadband, these are just a bunch of bots being used to "purify" the Internet: http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/01/26/china-to-purify-internet/ Enjoy. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFFygpCq1pz9mNUZTMRAhCKAKDe68/o/NNf8YpQt8IF8gQbrOy9cwCgoCsU j8OBowoEBogEiju3CH/+Krs= =ChAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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