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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on August 06, 2002, 03:13:01 PM
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http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/alerts/2002/02-003.htm
WASHINGTON - The government was
monitoring a series of electronic attacks
launched early Tuesday against U.S.
Internet providers, hours after European
authorities passed warnings to the FBI
predicting the attacks.
The impact from the attacks appeared
limited, and there were no reports of
outages or even delayed e-mails.
A flood of data, spiking nearly 700
percent more than usual traffic, was
aimed at Internet providers and Web
sites on the East coast starting about 2
a.m. EDT, then shifted toward providers and sites in Seattle, said a U.S.
official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
But unlike some recent so-called "denial of service" attacks, which
employed hundreds or thousands of computers to overwhelm Web sites,
this latest attack appeared to be coming from a relatively small number of
machines, the official said. That has allowed Internet providers to protect
their networks more easily by filtering data from the attacking computers.
The FBI issued a dramatic warning hours before the attacks started,
based on information from Italian authorities, the U.S. official said. The
alert cited "credible but nonspecific information that wide-scale hacker
attacks" were planned against U.S. Web sites and Internet providers,
"possibly emanating from Western Europe."
The earliest attacks targeted East Coast companies, including some in
Virginia and Maryland, then shifted to target sites in Seattle, the official
said. The White House and FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center
were monitoring the attacks.
Some experts indicated the attacks were so easily foiled that they did
not register any impact on the health of the Internet.
"We haven't seen anything out of the ordinary," said Chris Rouland of
Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc., which sells protective
software to thousands of companies. "We're paying attention to any sites
that may go down."
On the afternoon of August 05, 2002, the National Infrastructure Protection Center received credible,
but nonspecific information that wide-scale hacker attacks against U.S. websites and Internet
Service Providers (ISP) are being planned for later tonight, possibly emanating from Western Europe.
The purpose of this alert is to recommend that website and ISP administrators heighten their
awareness of network traffic during this period and encourage them to report suspected malicious
activities to their local FBI office http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm or the NIPC and to other
appropriate authorities. Recipients may report incidents online at
http://www.nipc.gov/incident/cirr.htm, and can reach the NIPC Watch and Warning Unit at (202)
323-3205, (888) 585-9078, or nipc.watch@fbi.gov.
The NIPC intends to update this alert should it receive additional relevant information, including
information provided to it by the user community.
Just another reason to kill more trees and NOT go to a "paperless environment" ;)
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Quick hide your porn!!
Geez Rip, you gave me a start with this one.
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No reason to hide the porn, with a shared folder left on every western computer perhaps blowing yourself up just to see a naked woman might not be so attractive anymore.