Lecture Notes in Computer Science:

In 1997, a buggy BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) [2] router falsely de-aggregated thousands of network addresses which disabled the Internet in the entire US east coast for up to 12 hours. In 2001, worm attacks such as CodeRed and Nimda were spread around the Internet, while the Renesys report [3] discussed a possible correlation between worm ... ................
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