Sunday, October 22, 2006
Bank Suffers from DoS attack
The National Australia Bank has confirmed that their websites suffered from a DoS attack, which was first detected at 6am. The attack saw the blocking of access to the NAB’s site and slow log-ons for the bank’s internet banking customers occured intermittently throughout the day NAB was not aware of the source or motivation of the attack and event had been referred to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) - a section of the Australian Federal Police.
A DoS attack is called a denial of service attack, which is caused when an offending computer pings or floods a network node with useless information or data requests. Often a DoS attack is created when several thousand computers are infected with viruses and then send useless requests to the one machine on the internet.
A DoS attack is called a denial of service attack, which is caused when an offending computer pings or floods a network node with useless information or data requests. Often a DoS attack is created when several thousand computers are infected with viruses and then send useless requests to the one machine on the internet.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 7:38 pm 
