Concerns Mount Over Major Web Strike

24 Aug, 2004 at 10:47pm ET Article published in Tech

A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed “electronic jihad,” may or may not strike this week, security experts said. One security researcher in Moscow warned that Thursday would be the day in question.

But a recent string of attacks on primary Internet services and the unraveling of major encryption routines are raising concerns in the Internet operator community. According to a Tuesday RIA Novosti report, Russian security researcher Yevgeny Kaspersky, founder of Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs International, said a strike against political and financial sites was expected on Thursday. “The hackers who have proclaimed ‘electronic jihad’ have enough experience and resources to paralyze the Internet for several hours at least,” Kaspersky said in the report.

Source: eWeek

Comments

24 Aug 2004 ~ 11:03pm primesuspect This sucks. As an ISP and a hosting provider, I actually have to worry about this crap, and it really just plain sucks
24 Aug 2004 ~ 11:05pm entropy Well it sucks for us, too. Short-Media might be knocked out!!!! :bawling: but I think they'd go after slightly bigger targets, no offense
24 Aug 2004 ~ 11:08pm primesuspect It's not that they would target me personally. I'm not stupid.

I host a lot of sites, not just short-media

But at anyrate, my actual servers are not going to be targeted, no... But the backbones I am on may be. I ride on Verio and then UUNET, and since the datacenter where my rack is located is in a carrier-class facility, I have to be concerned that the companies I piggyback on might actually be targeted.
24 Aug 2004 ~ 11:36pm Thrax eJihad.
24 Aug 2004 ~ 11:55pm entropy *eHad
25 Aug 2004 ~ 12:04am Thrax I was thinking that.. And that would be a great pun, but.. Eh. Most eWhatever or iWhatever titles don't do that.
25 Aug 2004 ~ 12:05pm Bud I say we hunt them down
25 Aug 2004 ~ 2:23pm SiC one problem is that people is going to lose alot of money.