[LINK] Distributed Denial of Service attacks

[richard@auscoms.com.au]

Amendment, "it was given the no story treatment in the USA." Well, its coverage
was, umm, momentary.

RC
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Subject:    Re: [LINK] Distributed Denial of Service attacks
Author: "Dan Tebbutt" <dtebbutt@ozemail.com.au>
Date:       11/02/00 15:34

At 1:04 PM +1100 11/2/00, richard@auscoms.com.au wrote:

>The first advisories about the two tools involved, trin00 and
>TribeFloodNetwork,
>went out last year. It was given the "no story" treatment because nobody had
>been attacked.

[SNIP]

NOT strictly true - we gave it page 3 coverage in The Australian Computers
section in December. it was a detailed explanation of distributed denial of
service attacks and mentioned trin00 and TFN. it included comments from ISS
(an intrusion detection/security vendor) and AusCERT.

interesting aside: i was in the US the day the attack hit Yahoo. i didn't
know about the problem at the time, so I went across to
http://www.yahoo.com.au and it was working fine! so you go to Silicon
Valley to use an Aussie site...

cheers

dant

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