Hackers aiming to disable root DNS servers on the Web could be more easily thwarted if networks left fewer avenues of attack open, says Lem Bingley
On 21 October at 9pm, somebody initiated an hour-long attack on the foundations of the Internet. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack troubled or disabled nine of the 13 root DNS servers...
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