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Root Name Server DoS Attacks Spur Exchange Between Government, Private Sector

William Jackson writes on GCN.com:

Tuesday’s denial-of-service attacks against three of the Internet’s root DNS servers did not rise to the level of a major cyberincident, but it did highlight the government’s efforts to coordinate responses with private-sector infrastructure providers.

“There was some minor degradation of service,” but no large impact, said Jerry Dixon, head of the Homeland Security Department’s National Cyber Security Division.

Dixon was joined Wednesday by Chris Painter of the Justice Department and Mark Hall of the Defense Department, his fellow co-chairmen on the National Cyber Response Coordination Group, at the RSA IT security conference. NCRCG is the government’s tool for organizing its response to the most serious cyberattacks, coordinating the efforts of federal departments and agencies with the private sector.

posted by Fergie @ 2/07/2007 12:06:00 PM