[governance] Marshall Islands internet service disrupted by botnet attack

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

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.

	suresh

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