Monthly Archives: February 2007

Botnet Used in DDOS Attack on Internet Root Servers

The Distributed Denial of Service Attack launched on Tuesday against the 13 internet root servers utlized millions of zombie Botnet PCs. The attack briefly overwhelmed two of the servers, but was more or less successfully thwarted. The attack does, however, highlight the strength of the criminal distributed computing network which hackers have built over the years.


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