Sprint confirms it was attacked with a denial-of-service attack
Officials at Sprint Corp. confirmed late yesterday that what they described as a "very low impact" denial-of-service attack occurred on the Sprint network Tuesday around 11 p.m.
Sprint spokesman Charles Fleckenstein said, "Sprint engineers immediately identified those Internet service providers from which the offending addresses originated, and those ISPs then blocked the offending addresses." The length of the attack was undetermined at deadline..
Sprint confirms denial-of-service attack
By JAMES COPE reporting for ComputerWorld
Officials at Sprint Corp. confirmed late yesterday that what they described as a "very low impact" denial-of-service attack occurred on the Sprint network Tuesday around 11 p.m.
Sprint spokesman Charles Fleckenstein said, "Sprint engineers immediately identified those Internet service providers from which the offending addresses originated, and those ISPs then blocked the offending addresses." The length of the attack was undetermined at deadline.
Fleckenstein said the attack caused Sprint to issue two trouble tickets. No further information was available at deadline.
