Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

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Goes to show how many more security engineers they need!

The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, according to officials inside and outside the government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening. Cyber attacks on South Korea government and private sites also may be linked, officials there said.

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Re: Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

Wait so these websites were American Government's websites?

When did you sleep yesterday?
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Re: Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

^ yup. heheh

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Re: Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

The biggest super power in the world and their government sites got hacked lol

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Re: Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

Not hacked actually ... it was DDOS (distributed denial-of-service attack) .. it eat up hosts resources ... & make it unavailable for users to access website ..

Not confirmed ] about 17000 pcs from Korea & 8000 from all round world were used

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Re: Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

There is practically no defense against DDoS.

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well it is difficult to achieve, but DDOS can be defended. But if a hacker actually pollutes global DNS, then there is no way. Apparently, this seems a case of DDOS, but which kind of DDOS is still yet to be known.

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Who said there is no defense against DD0S attack?Services like BlackD0S prodigy provides protection from all types of DD0s attacks.

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Amazone's UDNS class noders were untouched by DD0s attacks after Amazon took swift measures after Neustar's UDNS service hadbeen targeted.

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thanks for that piece of info... I was on vacation during that period ;) :)

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