[151812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Attack on the DNS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Mar 31 05:06:17 2012
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:05:46 -0400
From: Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Anyone seen signs of this attack actually occurring ?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/technology/with-advance-warning-bracing-for-attack-on-internet-by-anonymous.html?_r=1
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The message called it Operation Global Blackout, and rallied Anonymous
supporters worldwide to attack the Domain Name System, which converts
human-friendly domain names like google.com into numeric addresses
that are more useful for computers.
It declared when the attack would be carried out: March 31. And it
detailed exactly how: by bombarding the Domain Name System with junk
traffic in an effort to overwhelm it altogether.
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Regards
Marshall
