David McGuire and Brian Krebs report on yesterday’s denial of service attack on the Internet’s root DNS servers.
Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attack struck the 13 “root servers” that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.