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By Steve Ragan Feb 7, 2007, 17:36 GMT
UltraDNS servers attacked by South Korean hackers
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'overwhelming took down'??? what does that mean? even 'took down' does not appear to be supported by this or any other report.
RE:'The attackers were traced to areas of South Korea'? FALSE!
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3 of 13 servers were affected by the DOS (Denial-Of-Service) attacks. Large amounts of data are reported to have originated from South Korea, though that isn't necessarily where the hackers were located.
Find 'em and shoot 'em.
Anyone who works in internet communications knows that there is a high probability that zombie computers created the DOS from a geographical area that was nowhere near where the black hats were. Ergo, if large numbers of packets came out of S. Korea then the bad guys were probably not there at all.
Traffic patterns I've seen would suggest Brazil, the former E. Germany, or the former USSR as being better places to search for the culprits.
This article is *LOADED* with errors.
All 13 servers???
'took down'????
Largest attack since 2002????
Wow.
Calling Jack Bauer, Calling Jack Bauer...........
MY GENERATION IS XL-SECURE!
All 13 root servers down? Gee, my DNS cache must be massive since I seemed to experience virtually no delays in downloading pr0n, spam and popups. Don't do this job if you aren't going to take it seriously.
So...is this a case of 'those who can't control a thing, destroy that thing'?
All 13 servers? Bull... there are 7 DNS servers...
if all DNS were down, then there would be no internet plus other applications connected to the www...
get off your butts and do your research before you post wrong/misleading information
this story is a joke worthy of the onion
JACK BOO IS ASKING FOR 'TRACEEE-PINGGG-DATA' SEND TO HIS PDA.
OVER!!
Are we really supposed to believe that Korea has nothing to do with these attacks? I have recently noticed a ten-fold increase in the amount of spam that I am receiving over the past few weeks, and over 90% of it comes from Korea. In my opinion, SPAM is having a larger impact on the world economy and security than what we were led to believe was going on in the Middle East. I call SPAM a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and this needs to be addressed in a very harsh manner. I've sent hundreds of spam abuse complaints to the proper authorities at, abuse@hanaro.com, abuse@bora.net, postmaster@powercomm.com, where the SPAM originates, even security watchdog KISA (the Korean Information Security Agency), seems to have no effect on policing their own. How much bandwidth, how many people, how much more are we going to take? What is it going to take? Bumping the whole country of Korea off the Internet? Then when the economy of Korea sinks to the bottom of the China Sea, and the Yellow Sea flushes over their boarders, Will something be done? Will other countries given this example, take stronger measures to curtail this scourge? Spamming the spammers/hackers is not going to help, but fuel the situation. Ignoring the spammers/hackers will only lead more insurgents into this war. How much of your money and how much of your time is it going to take until a whole country finally gets nuked off the net, collateral damage and all? Are we to believe that Korea has nothing to do with yesterday’s attacks? Now which country really has Weapons of Mass Destruction? The solution, for starters, Whack a hole the size of Korea in the internet.
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