Internet Under Attack
Hacker groups have talked about stuff like this for years, but it looks like someone is
finally pulling it off. An unknown person or party have managed to create the most
impressive Denial of Service attacks ever (another story on ABC). Within the
past 30 hours they have taken Yahoo, CNN, eBay, Buy.com, and Amazon.com all offline for
multiple hours.
All five assaults were what are known as denial-of-service attacks, which entails someone bombarding a site with mock traffic. What results is an Internet traffic jam, effectively blocking out users. All of this week’s attacks appeared to be coordinated efforts from multiple points on the Internet.
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