[LINK] Distributed Denial of Service attacks

[Jan Whitaker]

CNN online has a 'front page' story on all this and the FBI honing in on the
culprits, supposedly in California and Oregon.

Several stories:

the FBI story:
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/11/cyber.attacks.01/index.html

webhacking underscores need for monitoring:
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/10/internet.monitoring.reut/  [this
one bothers me!!]

net execs to meet with Clinton:
http://cnn.com/cnnfn/2000/02/11/technology/wires/internet_clinton_wg/

a chat with Avi Rubin about security and DoS:
http://cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/2/rubin/

What a DoS means and how it works: there is a javascript there, but it
failed on my machine.

Jan

At 04:48  2000-02-11 +1100, Tony Barry wrote:
>At 1:56 PM +1100 11/2/2000, Grant Bayley wrote:
>>(which may consist of any mix of smurf, trin00, TFN,
>>stacheldracht, TFN2k etc)
>
>I would be greatly helped to know what these things are and do. I'm not
>sure if other members of the list share my interest in this detail but I'm
>sure many share my ignorance.
>
>Would anybody like a very brief primer on how denial of service attacks are
>done and what these acronims mean?
>
>Tony
>
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