[Paul K]

Just seen a link to this report on Neowin
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759...04dtx1k0000599

Concerns Mount over Major Web Strike
By David Morgenstern
August 24, 2004
A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week, security experts said. One security researcher in Moscow warned that Thursday would be the day in question.

But a recent string of attacks on primary Internet services and the unraveling of major encryption routines are raising concerns in the Internet operator community.
According to a Tuesday RIA Novosti report, Russian security researcher Yevgeny Kaspersky, founder of Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs International, said a strike against political and financial sites was expected on Thursday.

"The hackers who have proclaimed 'electronic jihad' have enough experience and resources to paralyze the Internet for several hours at least," Kaspersky said in the report.

"The e-jihad has been discussed for years, but an undisputed attack has yet to surface," said Ken Durham, director of malicious code at iDefense Inc. of Reston, Va.

For the most part, coordinated "hacktivist" attacks have been "more talk than walk," he added.
But Durham said security pros are increasingly worrying about when political activists might join with like-minded security and Internet programmers. "This will be a dangerous situation," he said.

While Kaspersky's warning appears to suggest wide-scale DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, experts suggested that important Internet services, as well as its root servers, are also at risk.

For example, a DDoS attack in June against Akamai Technologies Inc. slowed traffic across the Internet for several hours. And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame.

Anyone else seen reports of another attack on the web?