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To: long-gone who wrote (48651)	2/9/2000 9:12:00 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

OT.OT. I can't help but wonder if these kind of things are only practice runs for something bigger like The Fed, Treasury, Dow J, etc. add a few 00 here take a few 00 there. Seems like every time something good comes along ( the net ) some one just has to figure out a way to wreck it. Yahoo attacked by hackers Internet giant Yahoo stumbled when hackers staged an attack that disrupted the enormous search engine and Web portal for almost three hours, a company spokeswoman said. Yahoo did not call the incident Monday a "hack" since their computers' security was never breached, the spokeswoman said. But someone was sending enormous volumes of information through the Yahoo site that clogged the system and forced the site to a standstill. "Routers experienced a distributed denial of service attack at one of their California's data center," the spokeswoman said. "Someone or something created a fake traffic jam by sending packets of mock traffic," she added. "It was the first time Yahoo experienced difficulties to that extent." The origin of the attack is unknown. Yahoo is one of the world's most popular Internet sites, with 120 million visitors using 465 million Web pages a day during December. voila.co.uk FBI investigates net sabotage Wednesday, 9 February, 2000, 07:35 GMT " The FBI is investigating a series of electronic sabotage attacks which have disrupted some of the world's most popular websites. Online auction house eBay.com, Amazon.com and CNN.com became the latest victims on Tuesday afternoon following attacks on Yahoo and buy.com. As in the previous cases, outsiders bombarded the sites with a huge number of nuisance messages making it difficult or impossible for legitimate customers to get through. The electronic onslaught is termed a "denial of service" attack." Full story >>> news.bbc.co.uk