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The Australian Parliament's Web site was hit by an apparent denial-of-service attack Wednesday, two days after the hacking group Anonymous threatened attacks over the government's plan to filter Web content.

In May, news came from Australia that caught the world's Wi-Fi users completely off guard: A trio of PhD students at the Queensland University of Technology had discovered an indefensible denial-of-service flaw in the 802.11b network protocol. The group, led by associate professor Mark Looi, had accidentally uncovered the vulnerability back in November 2003 while investigating a previously known wireless flaw.

There I was, July 20, in the business centre of a hotel in downtown Paris when my personal denial-of-service nightmare began. I was downloading the 423 e-mail messages that had accumulated during two days of travel and it was taking what seemed like forever.

Microsoft Corp.'s systems have been subjected to a roller-coaster ride of outside attacks since last fall, with last week's denial-of-service assault against its Web sites following two earlier hacking incidents.

There was no Y2K bug to keep IT staff in the office on the eve of this new year, but there are some things that network administrators should be on the look out for in 2001.