Hackers Hit More Top Web Sites Hackers Hit More Top Web Sites Paul Jones
Hackers pulled off a series of brazen attacks on major Web sites on Tuesday, leading to shutdowns at Buy.com Inc. and eBay Inc., after a similar assault on Yahoo! Inc. the day before.
The attacks followed the same pattern, with a massive flow of automated Internet messages from hundreds of sources landing on the sites, swamping them with millions of messages and effectively blocking them to routine traffic. Other sites, too, appeared to be operating slowly, suggesting even more might have been targeted.
Late on Tuesday, online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. also appeared to have fallen victim to an attack, according to Internet monitoring firm Keynote Systems Inc.
Hackers (or more accurately, crackers) also did serious damage to CNN Interactive, which administers the Web site of Cable News Network, cnn.com, slowing content flow to a trickle for nearly two hours, a CNN official said.
