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Construction needs cloud flexibility

Australia’s embattled construction sector could benefit from cloud based information systems that can be switched on and off in lockstep with individual projects – with the exception of those organisations based in remote areas like the Kimberleys.

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Hackers take down Internet servers

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In what has been regarded as the most serious attack on the Internet since 2002, hackers on Tuesday managed to take down three of the 13 root servers that route traffic across the net. According to an Associated Press report, three servers were down for about 12 hours before the problem was fixed.

According to some experts, large volumes of data originating in South Korea were the cause of the problem.

In December 2002, a large scale denial of service attack targeted a company called UltraDNS (now Neustar Inc) which directed traffic for the .info and .org domains, flooding its servers with 2 million packets of data a second.

However, the latest attack was not considered as serious because improved distribution of the Internet workload has minimized the impact of targeted attacks.