Hackers attempt to break the internet, fail miserably

[wraggster]

via engadget

Alright folks, you should all be well aware by now that the internet ain't nothin' to mess with, but apparently a few folks in the South Korea area have just learned that the hard way. In what is being called the most severe attack on the web since the barrage of 2002, the same 13 "root servers" were targeted within the past 24 hours in a presumed attempt to disrupt global network traffic. Hackers were able to "briefly overwhelm" three of the 13 computers managing virtual thoroughfare with a series of "powerful attacks lasting as long as 12 hours," and while even the Homeland Security Department confirmed that it had witnessed "anomalous" internet traffic, most of the digital world hummed along without a care. Motives for the attack still aren't clear, but initial reports are suggesting that extortion of data or other malicious intent is probably unlikely, and what's more probable is a few folks trying to disguise data coming from South Korea were just having a bit of frowned-upon fun. Now, who else in the world thinks they can single handedly dismantle the internet?

[mad-brian]

haha that is so mad and stupid, disabling the internet

[the_eternal_dark]

Not wanting to sound evil, but I'd like to see what would have happened if they were successful.

[Kramer]

yeah would of been interesting

[Darksaviour69]

the internet would have been really slow or would have stopped for, what? a few mins

[GobboFett]

Bloody Koreans, all they do is hack servers and play StarCraft

[Shrygue]

Ha, those idiots are dreamers, trying to grind the Internet to a halt. Ridiculous!

[Junixx]

Like dark said, it would be interesting to see what would happen if that was actually successful