[ga] [Fwd: Marshall Islands internet service disrupted by botnet attack]

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  FYI

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Marshall Islands internet service disrupted by botnet attack
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:06:31 -0700
From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: IDNS and Spokesman for INEGroup
To: ALAC <alac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

All,

  Durring the Paris meeting seems that Internet security is failing...

http://www.circleid.com/posts/cyberattack_marshall_islands_email/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080624/tc_afp/marshallsinternet_080624104236

> Email communication in the Marshall Islands was paralysed Tuesday
after
> hackers launched a "zombie" computer attack on the western Pacific
> nation's only Internet service provider, AFP reports. The attack
> started early Tuesday, in which hackers used zombie computers to flood

> country's only Internet service provider with spam emails, causing
> a complete shutdown of email traffic into the nation of around 55,000
> people.

There are some ideas in
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/botnet.html that can

help, to some extent.

Regards,

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