An event happened yesterday in which hackers had made an attack on thirteen root servers.

A botnet, which are computers that had been compromised, launched these attacks on the servers. John Crain who is the chief technical officer at ICANN said, “Two of the root servers suffered badly, although they did not completely crash; some of the others also saw heavy traffic.”

The root servers that he is talking about are maintained by the U.S. Department of Defense and ICANN. Crain added that, “It was a small attack, but it was focused and targeted at the roots.”

The attack only lasted for approximately 5 hours.

Source: Computerworld