Russian hackers attacked Akamai servers

Websites of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others were taken out by a DDoS attack for 2 hours till these companies relocated their DNS records to their own computers. One expert noted that the sites themselves were still operational - it was only the DNS servers that resolve the word based web addresses of www. to numerical values that were failing. One respectful Russian security forum states that the malfunction at Akamai DNS servers was incurred by a DDoS attack committed by Russian hackers with the purpose to demonstrate their capabilities to inactivate www.microsoft.com site.

This topic became interesting after someone named DoZ boasted to "pull a Bill Gates' offspring for $80,000". He contended that he would be necessarily caught for that. People at famous security forum were sceptical about that, but they brought up a scientific question "How can anyone block Microsoft, without using millions of hacked computers and then how can he be not caught?"

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