[outages] [Fwd: Road Runner DNS servers]

[Frank Bulk]

More here:

http://help.rr.com/HMSFaqs/e_hackerAttacks.aspx
Hacker Attacks on Time Warner Cable's Servers

During the past week, hackers have launched a series of attacks on Time
Warner Cable's servers.  Time Warner Cable is working with law enforcement
agencies to resolve these crimes.

As a result of these attacks, you may have experienced a temporary "outage"
when attempting to surf the Web, including an intermittent "page cannot be
displayed" error message. The outages did not result in services being 100%
unavailable; and were limited to sporadic timeouts which appeared to be
random events.  Some users may have experienced a total disconnect, however.
These types of attacks are not uncommon, especially for a network as large
as ours. We suspect that the attackers are using "zombie computers," or
hijacking unsuspecting subscribers' machines to perpetrate the attack
without its owner's knowledge.

All of us at TWC take these attacks extremely seriously. As previously
mentioned, we are working with the appropriate law enforcement agencies that
specialize in investigating these types of crimes. We will pursue
prosecution of all perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law. We
apologize for the inconvenience that these attacks may have caused and
encourage you to report any suspicious activity. Please Contact Us for
instructions on how to report security abuse.

and the same here:
http://www.timewarnercable.com/SoCal/support/local/internetOutage.html

Frank

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From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
Behalf Of virendra rode
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:10 PM
To: outages at outages.org
Subject: [outages] [Fwd: Road Runner DNS servers]

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Does anyone have any insight into this?

I gave up trying last night by switching to non-tw dns servers.


regards,
/virendra


- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: Road Runner DNS servers
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:47:35 -0800
From: Ricardo Oliveira <rveloso at cs.ucla.edu>
To: nanog at nanog.org

Is there anyone clueful in this list from Road Runner(Time Warner
Cable) that can explain what's going on with their DNS servers - just
contacted their tech support and heard their DNS servers have been
under attack over the last 3 days..
thanks,

- --Ricardo


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