The security community has been aware of DDoS for some time. It was actually the topic of discussion at a recent ICSA meeting. Because of the nature of the web, this type of attack is difficult to prevent. When a user requests a web page, the server responds with the data. They simply overloaded the websites with requests. The only way to protect websites from this type of attack would be to protect networks against being vulnerable to having the client installed on the "zombie" machines that are the ones who are physically sending the false requests. Not that it is impossible to protect machines against having these clients installed, but it will take a massive worldwide collective to ensure that systems are protected against this. -John At 09:35 AM 2/15/00 -0800, you wrote: >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 > Global Technology Associates, Inc. 3505 Lake Lynda Drive Suite 109 Orlando, FL 32817 USA Tel: +1.407.380.0220 x105 Fax: +1.407.380.6080 http://www.gnatbox.com
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