Concerns Mount Over Major Web Strike

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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

primesuspect

This sucks. As an ISP and a hosting provider, I actually have to worry about this crap, and it really just plain sucks

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

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.

Thrax

eJihad.

entropy

*eHad

Thrax

I was thinking that.. And that would be a great pun, but.. Eh. Most eWhatever or iWhatever titles don't do that.

Bud

I say we hunt them down

SiC

one problem is that people is going to lose alot of money.