DoS Attack

The pieces have been picked up from Tuesday's denial of service (DoS) attack on the Internet's core DNS servers, and overall, experts are pretty pleased with the system's resiliency:

"Analysts say the hackers' used possibly millions of zombie computers to wage the attack -- and they expect that army is populated with the desktops and laptops of unknowing users around the world...

The root servers stood up so well to the attack because the people who manage them have been expecting the likes of it for years, says Sergey Bratus, a senior research associate with the Institute for Technology Studies at Dartmouth College.

"The possibility of the attack was seen a while ago and that's why these servers were so distributed," says Bratus, who notes that 12 organizations, including the U.S. Department of Defense and the University of Maryland, run the servers."

"You hear that, hackers? The score stands at internet: 1, greasy hackers: 0. Why don't you stick to phishing MySpace passwords and leave the rest of us alone?"

UPDATE: Verisign, for one, is resisting complacency:

"'Shame on all of us in this room who are security vendors,' [VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos said Thursday]. 'If we force our customers to choose between ease of use and better security, they will always choose simplicity. We have the security technology and have had it for years. Yet our consumers feel more vulnerable today than they've ever felt.'"

Posted by Joe Caponi at 12:33 PM, February 8, 2007

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