October 21, 2002: DDoS Cyber Attack

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In what was called one of the most sophisticated and coordinated digital incursions of all time, hackers employed a mass Denial of Service attack on 13 DNS root servers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, October 21st, 2021.
0:07.0	On this day in 2002, hackers waged a cyber attack that threatened the foundation of the Internet itself.
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0:50.3	Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.
0:58.3	Today we're covering a 2002 cyber attack that bore similarities to Code Red, a computer worm
1:05.4	that once attempted to shut down the internet.
1:08.5	Now let's go back to October 21st, 2002.
1:20.2	While doing routine checks, IT specialists in the United States noticed there was something
1:26.2	strange happening to the internet.
1:28.5	There were anomalies in the domain name systems used by the majority of websites.
1:33.6	Things only got worse when they recognized the cause was similar to a relatively new
1:38.6	computer worm that had already wreaked havoc across millions of computers.
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