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Thomas Dzubin (dzubint@vcn.bc.ca) wrote:

: I see on CNN's web site, http://www.cnn.com that one of the United
: States largest web page hosting services, WebCom, had network
: problems this past weekend which were caused by a TCP/IP SYN
: attack that was traced through PSINET, to CA*NET, then to BC NET.

: Two sentence (fair use) excerpt from the CNN story:

:      "WebCom believes the attack was launched from a BC.Net
:       account that had been broken into by an unknown party.
:       Engineers were unable to stop the flood of messages,
:       so MCI blocked all traffic from CANet to WebCom,
:       finally allowing WebCom customers' sites to come back
:       online Sunday afternoon."

: (quote taken from:
: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9612/17/web.attack.ap/index.html
: )
: Thomas Dzubin

It all started at Malspina College in Nanaimo, according to todays
Times Colonist newspaper in Victoria.  The F.B.I. are looking into it.
It knocked out 3,000 World Wide Web sites and one victim estimated a loss
of $20,000 because of it.


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    Karl Woodward      ua043@freenet.victoria.bc.ca        CANADA