Internet Backbone Withstands Attack
Internet Backbone Withstands Attack.
“The Internet withstood what appears to have been a major assault on its core infrastructure late Monday when all 13 of its root servers were attacked, according to a spokesman for VeriSign, which operates two of the servers. The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack started at about 5 p.m. Eastern Time Monday and lasted for about an hour, said Brian O’Shaughnessy, a spokesperson at VeriSign, the largest Internet domain name registrar. The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center “is aware of the matter” and is “addressing” it, said Steven Berry, a supervisory special agent with the FBI’s press office.”