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Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002. Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted as long as 12 hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the Internet. Behind the scenes, computer scientists worldwide raced to cope with enormous volumes of data that threatened to saturate some of the Internet's most vital pipelines.
It passed unnoticed here, so whoever is watching that pipeline (computer scientists worldwide), thank you.
The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, and vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea. It think the scope and reasons for the attack are still being determined.
