[27044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon Feb 7 20:35:12 2000
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>
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Yahoo told me on the phone that it's a malicious attack, and Global Center
says the same thing. In Yahoo's words: "a coordinated distributed denial of
service attack."
We've got a brief story up at:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.html
The problem apparently originated with a router. But what kind of attack
could have taken the network offline for that period of time and not
affected other Global Center customers? I mean, there had to have been a
gaping security hole somewhere: It looks like the routes got lost for
(nearly) all of the Yahoo network, but no other non-Yahoo sites...
-Declan
