[governance] Marshall Islands internet service disrupted by botnet attack

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Thanks for the pathetic info Suresh.
I think that the ISP could acquire the Botnet Mitigation Toolkit that
could help them deal with that problem.
In the mean time aren't there tools to track origins of the attack by
locating the IP of the computers.
I think this is what is happening when one holds a discussion on a US
located website. Your town of origine is tracked at the end of your
message without you writing it. It is anothr way of mitigating such
attacks. Isn't it?

Aaron

On 6/24/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 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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