CERT: Hacker-tracking site attacked
The Computer Emergency Response Team's Coordination Center, an important national clearinghouse for computer-security information, came under attack Wednesday, leaving its main Web site only intermittently reachable. The so-called denial-of-service attack didn't affect the group's ability to push security incident information to its members, but made public access to its sites a crap shoot.
"We are working with our service providers to resolve this problem," Bill Pollak, public relations coordinator for the CERT Coordination Center, said in a statement.
A denial-of-service attack can take one of two forms: a flood of data that overwhelms the Web server or the bandwidth leading to the server, or a specific command crafted to disable critical servers or Internet routers. The CERT Coordination Center would not identify which type matched the attack it was suffering from.
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