Marshall Islands internet service disrupted by botnet attack
All, Durring the Paris meeting seems that Internet security is failing... http://www.circleid.com/posts/cyberattack_marshall_islands_email/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080624/tc_afp/marshallsinternet_080624104236
Email communication in the Marshall Islands was paralysed Tuesday after hackers launched a "zombie" computer attack on the western Pacific nation's only Internet service provider, AFP reports. The attack started early Tuesday, in which hackers used zombie computers to flood
country's only Internet service provider with spam emails, causing a complete shutdown of email traffic into the nation of around 55,000 people.
There are some ideas in http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/botnet.html that can help, to some extent. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827
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