Australian Uecomm customers were frustrated by two hours of intermittent service today, as malicious hackers flooded the network with spurious traffic.
A crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack battered the Internet last evening, knocking several Uecomm links offline.
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Networking giant Cisco has published a raft of security advisories as part of its biannual patch-release schedule.
The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued alerts for some Juniper routers running IPv6, one of the first security warnings for the next-generation Internet Protocol.
Stolen Cisco code revealed recently has sent shivers down some administrators' spines but how widely it has been exploited remains to be seen. Additional reading: IT disasters -- preventative measures
Security experts warn that code which could be used to attack and crash Cisco routers has been posted to public mailing lists.
Financially motivated cyberattacks are on the rise, says Cisco Systems CSO John Stewart.
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