biar rame lagi....
ini karena pakai win NT?? atau giamana?? ternyata CNN yang jago dengan NT
nya bisa ke hacked juga silahkan simak beritanya berikut.
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Buy.Com, eBay, Amazon, CNN Hacked
By TED BRIDIS= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a dramatic demonstration of the Internet's
vulnerabilities, electronic vandals disrupted some of the Web's
most popular sites Tuesday by using dozens of powerful computers to
spew out a crippling flood of false data.
Internet sites under unprecedented attack included those of
eBay, Amazon and CNN, all in assaults similar to one that
overwhelmed Yahoo! a day earlier.
A fifth prominent Internet company, Buy.Com, also was crippled
for hours earlier Tuesday in a similar attack against its Web site.
Amazon.Com Inc. said in a statement that its site was
inaccessible for more than one hour late Tuesday because a ``large
amount of junk traffic'' was aimed at the company's computers,
tying them up and preventing nearly all its customers from making
purchases.
All the companies said hackers did not gain access inside their
computers or retrieve information about their customers.
CNN said its Web site was ``seriously affected.'' It fell under
attack for nearly two hours before technicians were able to shield
its computers from the hackers late Tuesday night.
eBay Inc., with more than 10 million customers, said engineers
were working into the evening Tuesday to try to restore service to
its site, after hackers tried to overwhelm its computers. Some
people couldn't enter the Web site at all, while others were able
to reach some of its pages.
eBay called the FBI and said early signs showed problems caused
by the same type of electronic assaults as those launched against
Buy.Com Inc. earlier Tuesday and against Yahoo! Inc. on Monday,
eBay spokeswoman Kristin Seuell said.
Tuesday's attack against Buy.Com, which claims more than 1.3
million customers, apparently was timed to coincide with the
company's initial stock offering. Chief executive Greg Hawkins
described the sabotage in a statement as ``an outside coordinated
attack to our network that prevented access to our system.'' Some
customers on the West Coast were unaffected.
``The whole thing happened so quickly,'' said Mitch Hill, the
company's chief financial officer. He said the attacks were traced
to powerful computers in Boston, New York and Chicago, and that
Buy.Com planned to contact the FBI on Wednesday.
These moves followed a brazen electronic attack Monday that for
hours crippled Yahoo!, among the most popular sites on the
Internet, though it was impossible to know immediately whether they
were related.
``It's still in the early stages, but we're working to see if
there are any common denominators,'' said eBay's Seuell.
The problems also illustrated again the unique threats faced by
online companies. Unlike their brick-and-mortar counterparts, these
attacks using remotely controlled ``zombie computers'' can
effectively shut down every Web storefront of an entire
corporation.
Yahoo! Inc. President Jeff Mallet confirmed Tuesday that the
FBI also is investigating the sabotage against his company and will
meet with engineers over the next few days. Mallet said the
company, which makes most of its money from Internet advertising,
does not anticipate a serious financial impact. In fact, its stock
rose more than 5 percent Tuesday, or $19.13, to close at $373.13.
Among the Internet underground, where craving for publicity
often fuels dramatic attacks against high-profile computers, no one
claimed responsibility for the moves against eBay, Amazon, Yahoo!
or Buy.Com.
``This is unfortunately one of the outcroppings of being a
leading communications medium company,'' Mallet said. ``Bad people
do bad things. It's going to continue to happen, (but) the
penalties are pretty severe.''
Mallet and technical experts believe that about 50 powerful
computers were hacked across the United States _ a fairly trivial
task _ and instructed simultaneously to send falsified data to
``routers'' on the Internet that, in turn, were fooled into
flooding Yahoo!'s Web site with electronic signals.
Mallet estimated that during the attack's peak, Yahoo! was
drowning in one gigabit of incoming data every second.
``Most sites don't get that in a year,'' spokeswoman Diane Hunt
said. ``That's an incredible amount.''
Buy.Com's chief executive estimated his site Tuesday was hit
with 800 megabits every second, or eight times his site's capacity.
He called the crush of data traffic aimed at his company
``unprecedented.''
Monday's attack, known as ``smurfing,'' was extraordinary
because of Yahoo!'s high profile as the Web's most popular site and
because the vandals apparently had hacked into so many computers
with ultra-fast Internet connections to launch the assault. Yahoo!
is worth roughly $93 billion, and its flagship Web directory
handles 36 million visitors each month.
``This was a very big denial of service attack,'' said Jonathon
Plonka, vice president of information technology engineering at
GlobalCenter, which provides Yahoo!'s Internet connection. Such
attacks are similar to pranksters repeatedly dialing a company's
telephone number to block all other incoming calls.
The attacks also carry broad implications for the nation's
fledgling electronic commerce industry, already facing consumers
anxious about disclosing credit card numbers and other personal
information online because of fears of hackers or corporate
misdeeds.
``This is certainly a demonstration of how high you can scale
an attack,'' said Patrick Taylor, vice president of risk assessment at
Internet Security Systems Inc. ``If you can do this to Yahoo!,
there's probably not many people you can't do it to.''
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