Dos Attacks

[RMF]

While looking for reasons why some of my sites were down, including a webhost site, I came across a thread at another forum. Might be of interest to some of you.

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107128

RMF

 

[greggish]

I just posted the same thing in the Lounge...

 

[.com.net.org]

it's very common attack and very hard to prevent.

DDOS is much more powerful

 

[mole]

It is still on? The net is very slow today for a couple of sites and my POP email is cranky.

 

[mole]

BBC Saturday, 25 January, 2003, 12:14 GMT
Virus-like attack hits web traffic


The attack targeted Mircrosoft database software

Traffic has slowed dramatically on many parts of the internet - apparently the result of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection, computer experts say.
The electronic attack is reported to have interfered with web browsing and e-mail delivery.

Experts said the attack on Saturday was similar to the impact of the "Code Red" virus, which brought internet traffic to a standstill in the summer of 2001.

"It's not debilitating," said Howard Schmidt, one of President George W Bush's top cyber-security advisers, quoted by the Associated Press news agency.

"Everybody seems to be getting it under control."

South Korea hit

He said the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and private experts at the CERT Co-ordination Center were monitoring the attacks.

It is highly likely hackers have launched an all-out attack on the country's internet system


In South Korea internet services were shut down nationwide for hours on Saturday, the country's Yonhap news agency reported.

It said the shutdown was triggered by "apparent cyber terror committed by hackers".

It was not immediately clear if the South Korean attack was the same as that reported in the United States.

It is the first time South Korea's wired and mobile internet services have been hit collectively in such a way, according to Yonhap.

But the impact on most financial institutions, corporations and government offices was minimal as they were closed for the weekend, it said.

According to software experts quoted by AP, the attack targeted vulnerable computers, infecting database software from Microsoft Corp., called "SQL Server".

The attacking software code overwhelmed many internet data pipelines as it searched for victim computers randomly and aggressively.

 

[DotComster]

3 or 4 registrars are affected I think to, StarGate for one.

 

[Togoodhlth]

This "virus" is definitely slowing me down. I would say one our of five websites I have attempted to reach today has failed to parse.
I can't get into one of my sites to work on it.

This virus must have started last night as that is when I noticed a large number of sites unavailable.

 

[DomainPairs]

This link has been posted a few times.
http://www.internetpulse.com

If you click on the UUNET-UUNET (top left) you will see that the problems in Dallas have actually increased.