Petteri Pyyny
30 Jul 2002 12:40
According to ZDNet, RIAA's website, RIAA.org, was disabled by a massive DoS (Denial Of Service) attack for four days. Attacks started on Friday last week and ended yesterday.
Attacks started shortly after RIAA encodersed a bill written by House representative Berman on Thursday, that would allow copyright owners to use force to distrupt file swapping in P2P networks. The RIAA said it would not speculate about the reason for the attack.
In DoS attacks, attackers normally "capture" hundreds or thousands of computers and use those computers simultaneously to attack specific site by sending bogus data and requests for the server.
Source: ZDNet