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DNS Root Servers Attacked

Posted by kdawson on from the flexing-muscles dept.

liquidat and others wrote in with the news that the DNS Root Servers were attacked overnight. It looks like the F, I, and M servers felt the attack and recovered, whereas G (US Department of Defense) and L (ICANN) did less well. Some new botnet flexing its muscle perhaps? AP coverage is here.

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  1. Send the repair bill to Microsoft by Marcos+Eliziario · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Some years ago, the South Koreans standardized their on-line experience on ActiveX. Everything, from online banking, to school websites has some kind of a friggin ActiveX applet. Because of that, most south Koreans are used to allow activex controls to be installed on IE. This explains why so much of the attacks, according to TFA, came from there. So, nothing more fair than sending the bill to Microsoft (no pum intended). Seriously, if the attack has succeeded, it would have changed life as we know it.

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  2. Re:Media: tie attack to likely Windows botnets by Joe+U · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, you have it reversed. You see, the Mac & Linux are in the 'I'm too cool'/Brittany category.

    Quotes like "I don't use Windows, I use FREE software " shows the arrogance that surrounds the average Linux userbase. Don't even get me started with the Mac zealots.

    Lets just put it this way, the majority of mac and linux power users act like assholes.

    So, I'll stoop down to their level with this:

    Dear Linux and Mac users,

    Go back to your little toys and have fun, I'm too busy actually helping create and run the market that you are permitted to dwell in.