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Biggest hack attack gang caught
By Chen Qian |
August 21, 2009, Friday
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FOUR men who allegedly organized the country's largest Internet hack attack have been arrested.
The attack left millions of users unable to gain access to the Internet in 15 provinces in May, Guangzhou-based New Express Daily reported today.
Police in Foshan, Guangdong Province, said the gang ran a private server in the city for online games and advertisements. They attacked DNS (Domain Name System) to take revenge to their rivals.
The gang leader, a 23-year-old man surnamed Xu from Zhejiang Province, rented 81 private servers for 280,000 yuan for the attack, the report said.
Netizens in Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangxi, Hainan, Gansu and Zhejiang provinces were unable to access the Internet from 5pm on May 19 and more people in other provinces suffered network breakdowns the next day.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to certain computers and locates and addresses these devices worldwide. An often used analogy to explain DNS is that it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet by translating computer host names into IP addresses.
DNS offers servers to many portal and famous Websites including Baofeng.com, which provides online video services. More than 100,000 Websites were paralyzed in the attack.
Police traced the gang's IP address to a cotton factory in Foshan and caught them there on June 1.
The attack left millions of users unable to gain access to the Internet in 15 provinces in May, Guangzhou-based New Express Daily reported today.
Police in Foshan, Guangdong Province, said the gang ran a private server in the city for online games and advertisements. They attacked DNS (Domain Name System) to take revenge to their rivals.
The gang leader, a 23-year-old man surnamed Xu from Zhejiang Province, rented 81 private servers for 280,000 yuan for the attack, the report said.
Netizens in Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangxi, Hainan, Gansu and Zhejiang provinces were unable to access the Internet from 5pm on May 19 and more people in other provinces suffered network breakdowns the next day.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to certain computers and locates and addresses these devices worldwide. An often used analogy to explain DNS is that it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet by translating computer host names into IP addresses.
DNS offers servers to many portal and famous Websites including Baofeng.com, which provides online video services. More than 100,000 Websites were paralyzed in the attack.
Police traced the gang's IP address to a cotton factory in Foshan and caught them there on June 1.
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