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Researchers issue warning on ‘powerful’ Internet attacks

Security researchers have issued a warning about a new variety of unusually powerful Internet attacks that can overwhelm popular Web sites and disrupt e-mails by exploiting the computers that help manage global Internet traffic, an Associated Press report said.

First detected late last year, the new attacks directed such massive amounts of spurious data against victim computers that even flagship technology companies could not cope, the report said.

Experts traced at least 1,500 attacks that briefly shut down commercial Web sites, large Internet service providers and leading Internet infrastructure companies for weeks, the report added.

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