Mother-of-all hacker attacks warning

Security researchers are warning about a new variety of unusually powerful

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Security researchers are warning about a new variety of unusually powerful internet attacks that can overwhelm popular websites and disrupt emails by exploiting the computers that help manage global internet traffic.

First detected late last year, the new attacks direct such massive amounts of spurious data against victim computers that even flagship technology companies could not cope.

In one of the early cases examined, the unknown assailant apparently seized control of an internet name server in South Africa and deliberately corrupted its contents.

Name servers are specialised computers that help direct internet traffic to its destinations.

The attacker then sent falsified requests to the compromised directory computer, which unleashed overwhelming floods of amplified data aimed wherever the attacker wanted.

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[Mokita]

There is already a fairly extensive discussion about that issue here:

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