COMPUTER security experts are attempting to work out how to stop the kind of
cyber attacks that shut down half a dozen major-league websites last week.
The “denial of service” (DoS) attacks against some of the biggest commercial
sites on the Web, including Yahoo, Amazon, CNN and eBay, flooded the targets
with huge amounts of useless traffic, slowing their computers to the point where
legitimate users couldn’t get through.
“We are committed in every way possible to tracking those who are
responsible,” said US Attorney General Janet Reno, announcing an FBI
investigation. Strategies to stop future attacks range from standardising…
