Yevgeny Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs fame, has raised concerns of a major attack on the internet today. Kaspersky has been widely quoted as saying that there would be a major online attack against Israeli sites today. "Arabic and Hebrew language websites contained an announcement of an 'electronic jihad' against Israel, to start on 26th August 2004".
True? Quite possibly. However, after this news was widely circulated around the web, Kaspersky went on to clarify his comments. He remarked that the true possibility of the threat was 'low', but added that Kaspersky Labs would be raising their online thread level.
He also commented (and raised a very valid point) that if not today, it could be tomorrow that we see an attack. He noted that the many insecurities in the internet’s structure and popular Operating systems meant that it was only a matter of time before online terrorists added 'the internet' to their arsenal of weapons.
Although such a major attack has yet to take place on the internet, a few have come close. Of note, an attack on Akamai, WWW content distributor/cache, did serious damage due to the number of sites hosted with them. Equally damaging was an attack in October 2002 on the Root servers of the internet, that manage DNS. For more information on this kind of attack, read here for an extensive interview with Dave Dittrich.
View: Info from Russian News Agency Novosti | Clarification @ Viruslist.com
True? Quite possibly. However, after this news was widely circulated around the web, Kaspersky went on to clarify his comments. He remarked that the true possibility of the threat was 'low', but added that Kaspersky Labs would be raising their online thread level.
He also commented (and raised a very valid point) that if not today, it could be tomorrow that we see an attack. He noted that the many insecurities in the internet’s structure and popular Operating systems meant that it was only a matter of time before online terrorists added 'the internet' to their arsenal of weapons.
Although such a major attack has yet to take place on the internet, a few have come close. Of note, an attack on Akamai, WWW content distributor/cache, did serious damage due to the number of sites hosted with them. Equally damaging was an attack in October 2002 on the Root servers of the internet, that manage DNS. For more information on this kind of attack, read here for an extensive interview with Dave Dittrich.
View: Info from Russian News Agency Novosti | Clarification @ Viruslist.com
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Current time 4:32 PST, and still no sign of this so called termination of internet connections.
Last edited by 37896 on 26 Aug 2004 - 23:32
This used to be my nr1 source but lately some of the news are like 3 days old.
This "news" is just an urban legend, a hoax.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18095
http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=281&page=3
2. It has the same content as us.
3. Its not "an urban legend" - the guy merely clarified his comments.
1. Use my FreeBSD box as normal.
2. Laugh as all the windows users around me get 0wned in eJihad
Last edited by 34151 on 27 Aug 2004 - 04:20
WOO!! That an invitation to spam their forums?????
lol!! ok i'm going to share my powers of clairvoyance as well.
I predict that if not today, there will be some sort of internet attack against some website somewhere in the future
woo woo!
Probably running off one 486 server
mr magoo
Last edited by 1409 on 26 Aug 2004 - 13:19
Goodbye NeoWin.
And, while cutting, they should also cut all those oil pipes. This way we might learn to live without oil after researching a bit and wouldn't need wars because of it.
X-Spyder, there is always electricity and there are mutiple ways of obtaining it. There are hydroelectric plants, geothermal plants, wind mill plants, solar panels, satelites in space beaming energy in the form of microwaves to earth, fuel cells (methane and hydrogen to my knowledge) and then nuclear power. If we use them, I'm sure we'd be able to leave the oil in the ground, where it belongs. Then in the future we could drop nuclear power in favor of cold-fusion.
i dont see any e-israeli-terrorist groups going around the web and looking for troubles, same goes for bombings and s***
im sorry but you all europeans reading some crappy news paper that are completely biased towards the muslim culture for crying out load, get some second opinions before you all become anti israel
but they maybe not success as big as it is warned. but we need to prepare
Maybe they will postpone the attack, since many security company and expert are watching.
the possibilities if they delay it, someday around 9/11.
We are like hookers who want another life but just don't have another way to make money.
Anyways if they want wars... then wars they will receive (i'm ready for start a all brand new meow wars!.. meow meow meow).
we need them, they have us over a barrel, so to speak <g>
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