Thursday, September 20, 2007

Bots attack Estonia.


This is a very scary post about hackers harnessing third-party computers to launch a sytematic attack on an information infrastructure.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This use of "zombies" is why I've always been wary of Limewire and other network/file-sharing programs.

Tanvir said...

. I just ran into a website about Estonia the other day - it is a Documentary about Estonia's Singing Revolution:
http://singingrevolution.com

Sawsee said...

Hi JDH! They say it is very difficult to detect whether one has a 'zombie' computer or not.

Welcome tanvir! That's amazing how singing can unite a country! Powerful!