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 -----Original Message----- From: outages-bounces@outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] On Behalf Of virendra rode Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:10 PM To: outages@outages.org Subject: [outages] [Fwd: Road Runner DNS servers] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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@cs.ucla.edu> To: nanog@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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJp3WZpbZvCIJx1bcRAuR8AKDLNIqOmZMWXUkhmaAK+9j9yv3NfQCePZ6S aepRlQ5PGSihSlieHERJCqI= =Gv6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ outages mailing list outages@outages.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages