I don't believe that this was the total objective. I believe (and this is only conjecture) that their point was the actual vulnerability itself. The DoS and the newly created DDos attacks are VERY simple to use and widely available. I think the point was "Hey, check out this great piece of code that is really easy to use and the MAJOR players on the internet are still vulnerable." I am hopeing it was more of a wake up call than it was malicious, but who knows. -Kyle Information Security MSDW Online -----Original Message----- From: hndat_private [mailto:hndat_private] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:03 PM To: firewall-wizardsat_private Subject: Recent Attacks hi, I was just wondering that The latest attacks on the popular web sites had only one objective behind it: to bring the web sites and render it useless for the period of attack. If these hacker really do want to create massive scale problems why not hack the root servers?!!!!!!! This will bring down the whole internet. Hoshil
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