President Seeks Funds to Squash Hackers

摘要

In early February, web surfers hoping to use the Yahoo browser to search for information, check the latest news or shop for the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday, got a rude surprise. One of the world's best-protected web sites had been shut down by hackers and would stay offline for three hours.Over the following three days, seven of the Internet's top sites fell prey to "denial of service" attacks where the target is flooded with an overwhelming number of messages. The large scale-Yahoo claimed it was at times trying to process a gigabyte per second-made the attacks almost unstoppable. Worse yet, the use of multiple computers and falsified Internet return addresses hid the attackers well.