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Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
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By David McGuire and Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 22, 2002; 5:40 PM
The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations.
Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.
