World News Tonight (ABC) - 2000-02-09
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[0:00] by Portland [music] International
[0:01] Airport. Providing better access to the
[0:04] world.
[0:12] On World News Tonight this Wednesday,
[0:14] more vandalism on the internet. Who is
[0:16] doing it and what can be done to prevent
[0:18] it? A [music] six- foot long screw is
[0:21] recovered from the Alaska Airlines crash
[0:23] site. What does it say about the crash?
[0:26] Presidential candidates in need of a
[0:28] great strategist and an even better air
[0:31] traffic controller. And the cowboy who
[0:34] ropes the calves he cannot see. Oh.
[0:44] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:47] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:50] Peter Jennings.
[0:51] >> Good evening. There's been another rash
[0:53] of attacks on internet websites today.
[0:55] It's the third day in a row. Once again,
[0:57] major websites were struck. The web is
[1:00] such a huge part of life and a
[1:02] significant part of the national economy
[1:03] now that these are major events. So,
[1:05] first we go to ABC's Jack Smith.
[1:10] Today, it was the turn of internet stock
[1:12] brokerage Erade and the technology site
[1:14] ZDNet. Shut down for up to two hours by
[1:18] attacks choking their websites with
[1:20] phony requests. Those attacks will cost
[1:23] real people real money. If you couldn't
[1:25] place a trade at a critical time this
[1:27] morning, you were going to lose money.
[1:28] >> The damage to Yahoo, the first site
[1:30] shutdown, is estimated at half a million
[1:33] dollars. No one knows who's responsible,
[1:35] but experts at IBM who monitor security
[1:38] say the attacks need not have been the
[1:40] work of an entire group.
[1:42] >> It is definitely possible that it could
[1:43] be the act of a single individual from a
[1:45] home P