Attack floods Internet root servers with 5 million queries a second
On two separate occasions lasting an hour or more each, a flood of as many as five million queries per second hit multiple domain name system root servers that act as the final and authoritative reference for determining which IP address is returned when a user types a domain name into a browser.

December 9, 2015 at 12:40PM
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