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Hackers strike at the heart of the internet
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There are signs hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the internet yesterday but no damage seems to have been done, experts said.
The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the actual numeric IP addresses of servers connected to the internet, and vice versa. Several key DNS servers saw traffic spike in the early morning on Tuesday, several experts said - a sign of an attack.
John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers, said: "It is an unusual large amount of traffic that is hitting DNS servers. We see large attacks on a regular basis but this hit quite a few servers, so it was fairly large."
Yet the DNS servers were able to withstand the onslaught, Crain added. "It was irritating. It ruined my night's sleep. It was extraordinary in the fact that it happened to multiple systems at once but this is not affecting internet users," he said.
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There are signs hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the internet yesterday but no damage seems to have been done, experts said.
The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the actual numeric IP addresses of servers connected to the internet, and vice versa. Several key DNS servers saw traffic spike in the early morning on Tuesday, several experts said - a sign of an attack.
John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers, said: "It is an unusual large amount of traffic that is hitting DNS servers. We see large attacks on a regular basis but this hit quite a few servers, so it was fairly large."
Yet the DNS servers were able to withstand the onslaught, Crain added. "It was irritating. It ruined my night's sleep. It was extraordinary in the fact that it happened to multiple systems at once but this is not affecting internet users," he said.
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Huh, they kept repeting this story on the radio yesterday. I guess these hackers just weren't leet enough to pull it off. xd
