South Korean hackers wallop the Internet

HACKERS from South Korea managed to take down three of the 13 computers that look after DNS addresses on the Interweb.

According to Associated Press, in one of the most significant attacks against the internet since 2002, the hackers flung shedloads of bogus data at UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for websites ending in "org" and some other suffixes.

Among the "root" servers that manage global internet traffic were ones operated by the US Defence Department and the internet's primary oversight body. The attacks lasted for hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users. The attack was less serious than attacks against the same 13 "root" servers in October 2002 because the servers have increasingly distributed their workloads around the globe.

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