Who caused the ‘DoS’ attack on the Internet’s root servers last Tuesday?

Question

On Tuesday, Feb. 6th, the root servers of the Internet suffered the biggest attack since 2002. The attack strained 3 of the root servers and caused Internet traffic to significantly slow down, but did not cause the Internet to go down, thankfully.

Can an attack of this magnitude be instigated by a small group of people or would it require a large organized group? Does the sophistication of the attack indicate that a terrorist entity or enemy government is behind it?

Was it ever determined who was responsible for the last major attack in 2002?

It was speculated that Tuesday's attack originated in South Korea. Is it possible to determine more precisely where the attack originated (why would S. Koreans want to take down the Internet, anyway?).

Would it theoretically be possible to ‘disconnect’ an individual country or an entire region in order to prevent the whole Internet to crash, if the source of an attack could be ascertained?

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It would appear that we are barely able to keep one step ahead of the hacker/terrorists and that it is simply a matter of time before the hackers get “lucky”.

What is the long term solution to this issue?


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Answer 1

I am 100% sure. it wasn't me

Answer 2

Actually a small group of people can achieve this. Why? Because they can and get their jollies from screwing other people up.

It works like this. Lets take AIM (AOL internet messenger). Last year a worm pipeline.W32 was identified which used a loophole and established itself on machines. It was apparently establishing a very sophisticated bot net. It allowed certain ips to take over control of the infected pc and use it for its own purposes. Possibly DOS attacks. The control ip can take control and use all the infected pcs to simultaneously link to the target site. That is the usual method of this kind of thing. It would, theoretically only take one person to initiate it.

Answer 3

I read a book called "Jerusalem Countdown" I read where an instrument that either has been produced or currently being produced that would create absolute panic. Powerful enough to stop everything electrial. I would not be surprise to find that Iran has this capability. I can't get into the technicals of this because I don't won't to speculate & I don't have all the particulars.

Answer 4

Geeks who want their 15 mins. of fame...."Shut down the internet and you control most people in the world" What one person does to enhance versions, another 10 will find a way to "screw it up"...
Its all a big game to them...at the millions in costs to others...

Now answer this one: Why are their computers safe form these attacks?? becuz they found ways to insulate themselves !!!!

Answer 5

it was not an attack, they had to temporally hold all traffic to do certain repairs to the undersea cables, caused by last month earth quake in the south china sea, you probably will see a few more of these.