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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1627000/1627707.stm Attacks from the heart of the net - White House website was hit by a denial of service attack As the security improves on one part of the internet, malicious hackers are changing their tactics to take advantage of lapses elsewhere. A report by the Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) in the US has revealed that some computer vandals are now targeting the machines making up the fabric of the net. Some attackers are starting to use routers - devices that pass data packets around the net - to bombard sites and servers with enormous amounts of data....
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