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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Several security experts and media reports predicted that Monday, July 9, would be remembered as the day millions lost their Internet connections and possibly their livelihoods...Eastern Time on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled the...
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PR Newswire
| 11 months ago
Based in Quito and Guayaquil, with 1,900 square metres (20,450 square feet) of technical space, the carrier-neutral Telconet data centres are linked by a completely redundant and exclusive fibre optic network, which allows for disaster recovery and...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
Mac and PC users off the internet on Monday, no major companies experienced issues related to the so-called "Doomsday Virus."...The malware redirected internet traffic to sites with paid advertisements where cybercriminals reaped profit from...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
The so-called Internet blackout has come, but fairly few are actually stuck in the dark. At the tick of midnight on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down Internet servers that were set up as a safety measure in the wake of an online...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
FBI shut down a temporary safety net for users connected to the infected servers...DNS (domain name system) servers translate an address, such as the guardiannews.com , to a numerical one, simplifying the web browsing process for the average computer...
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Associated Press
| 11 months ago
On Monday, the FBI turned off servers that had allowed thousands of malware-stricken computers to continue using the Internet...Without the servers, the machines wouldn't know how to locate websites and send email...With the change, your computer...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
FBI pulled their digital safety-net could be tricky. (iStock) Thousands of Canadians are without internet access today after the removal of several temporary DNS servers that were keeping malware-infected computers online...To keep computers hit with...
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NY1
| 11 months ago
The threat of a widespread Internet lockout seems to have passed without affecting as many people as originally feared. After hundreds of thousands of computers were infected by malware, the FBI set up two clean back-up servers that would allow...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 11 months ago
Shortly after midnight EDT, the authorities cut off computer servers in New York City that had been put in place to direct traffic for infected computers, which would have been unable to access the Internet without their help. Some blogs and news...
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Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
Tens of thousands of computer users around the world infected with malware last year may lose their Internet access Monday with the expiration of a fix by US authorities, security experts say. The so-called Internet doomsday virus, however, appeared...
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The Beacon Herald
| 11 months ago
If you woke up without the Internet, you may have been shut down by the FBI. About 9,000 Canadian-owned computers infected with a trojan called DNS Changer, a program that redirected unsuspecting users to rogue servers controlled by cyber thieves,...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
It's July 9 and as multiple reports have been forewarning for the last couple of weeks about a quarter-million people around the world are at the risk of losing Internet access, all because of a malware called the DNS Changer that has been floating...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Victims of the DNS Changer malware think they have better things to do than check their internet security, and as a digital society we're dealing with malware in completely the wrong way. These are the thoughts of Paul Vixie who worked with the FBI...
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KSBY
| 11 months ago
by Associated Press You may be one of thousands across the country whose Internet shut down just after midnight because of malware that took over computers around the world more than a year ago. The FBI went in late last year to take down the hackers'...
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Sky News
| 11 months ago
When the FBI went in to take down the hackers late last year, agents realised that if they turned off the malicious servers being used to control the computers, all the victims would lose their internet service. The bureau brought in a private...
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The Jakarta Post
| 11 months ago
According to reports last week, a malware DNS Charger will terminate the Internet connections of millions of people around the world. "The Internet doomsday is just a rumor. It is inaccurate to say that massive Internet traffic congestion will happen...
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Mail Online UK
| 11 months ago
9 July 2012 If you cannot get on the internet today, there may be a good reason why the FBI is shutting it down. The U.S. law enforcement agency will be blocking up to 500,000 users around the world who have a malicious program installed on their...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Thousands face internet loss as FBI shuts off servers Online tools can help people find out if their machine is still infected More than 300,000 people, including many in the US and UK, could lose internet access later as the FBI shuts off servers...
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CNN Blog
| 12 months ago
An Internet blackout that will happen Monday has the webisphere scrambling...The FBI is set to shut down servers that it initially created to support infected computers after the authors of the pesky malware were caught in November...The agency has...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Since then the FBI has continued to run the servers for a grace period to give computer users time to remove the infection from their machines. But this period ends on Monday and anyone who has not removed the offending software by then will not be...
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NY1
| 12 months ago
Computer malware could cause thousands of people across the country to lose their Internet access Monday, but the good news is there's still time to fix it. It all started when hackers ran an online advertising scam with the goal of gaining control...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Microsoft's new Surface tablet computer is displayed at its unveiling in Los Angeles on June 18, 2012. The computer will start up, but when you try to use your mail or try to use your browser, you are going to get some kind of error message, Prof...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
Computers still infected by the DNS Changer malware using an Eastern European advertising scam won't be able to access the Internet Monday, when the FBI is expected to shut down the servers that ran the operation.
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
01 a.m. on July 9 the FBI will remove its phalanx of protective servers that have been keeping still-infected computers safely online. However the panic over the possibility of losing Internet access is probably, at this point, out-of-proportion to...
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Mail Online UK
| 12 months ago
The impending crash will affect those whose computers have been infected with the nasty 'Alureon/DNS Changer bot' when the FBI takes down the servers at 12.01 a.m. on Monday, July 9. To avoid the meltdown, users need to determine if their computer is...
