“U.S. Web sites and Internet service providers could suffer crippling hacker attacks sometime today, the FBI warned Monday. Citing ‘credible, but non-specific information,’ the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) urged system administrators to guard against widespread hacker attacks, possibly emanating from Western Europe. The NIPC alert encourages administrators to ‘heighten their awareness of network traffic during this period,’ and ‘to report suspicious malicious activities’ to their local FBI office. The warning did not say whether any specific networks were at risk of attack, nor did it identify any groups or individuals suspected of preparing attacks. A NIPC spokesperson said that law enforcement is expecting ‘denial-of-service’ attacks – designed to crash Web sites by flooding them with a large volume of Internet traffic…”
Did it happen? Is it happening?
Pick your source:
- Washington Post’s TechNews.com: FBI Alerts U.S. Sites To Widespread Hacker Attacks
- NIPC Alerts: Heightened Awareness Warranted on August 5-6, 2002 By U.S. Website and ISP Administrators
- Google News Search
