A patent is made on one of the earliest forms of RAM and a DDOS attack occurs that is considered one of the internet’s biggest hacker attacks. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1949 – Patent on the Earliest Form of RAM
Chinese American computer engineer Dr. An Wang filed a patent for a magnetic ferrite core memory entitled “pulse transfer controlling devices.” An Wang went on to found industry giant Wang Laboratories in 1951. Magnetic ferrite core memory was one of earliest forms of random access memory for computers.
2002 – The Internet’s Biggest Hacker Attack
On this day in 2002, around 5pm in the afternoon, an estimated six thousand computers launch a type of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) known as an ICMP flood on thirteen root servers that control the majority of the Internet’s traffic. Over the period of about one hour, the servers are bombarded with thirty-to-forty times their usual amount of traffic. This cause periods of zero-response in seven of the thirteen servers and severely diminish capacity in an eighth server. Due to this attack, many of the internet’s top sites are temporarily rendered unresponsive by the attack, including Amazon.com, eBay, and Yahoo! Afterwards the incident come to be considered the most damaging DDOS attack in history.
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