ISP Attacks

A bunch of hackers tried to take out the US's ISPs. They didn't do very much.

The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) issued a statement Monday afternoon saying it had "received credible, but nonspecific information that wide-scale hacker attacks against United States Web sites and Internet service providers (ISPs) are being planned ... possibly emanating from Western Europe." **From CNN.com

Full story here.

I hate AOL, it's too bad that didn't get hacked to hell. oh well, at least i don't have to deal with it often :)

Online security firm Riptech Inc. said that as of noon EDT they had not witnessed any notable evidence of an attack.
Sounds like CNN just preparing for an excuse when AOL (Owned by CNN) goes down :P

Bleh. AOL is kinda like the Microsoft of ISPs. It brought an easy to use Internet service to the masses. Although AOL is lame.

I thought CNN was owned by AOL (Always Off Line), not vise-versa.

Heh. AOL sucks. Full stop.

what pisses me off the most if every PC company tries to offer it with a new machine, even though I DON'T WANT ITS NASTINESS.

Ichor said:

I thought CNN was owned by AOL (Always Off Line), not vise-versa.

Yeh, sorry, was thinking the tail was wagging the dog.

the only good thing about AOL was back during the 3.0-4.0 days when punters worked. those were fun to play with.