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Re: New DDoS?
From: Darren Reed <avalon () COOMBS ANU EDU AU>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:57:07 +1100
In some mail from Ryan Russell, sie said: [...]
The attack would have to be subtle (i.e. not crash the browser) and the site would have to be popular, but not very carefully watched by the administrators. In fact, given a powerful enough hole, this is a good way to build an army of traditional zombies. Or steal loads of personal info off of clients.
What about placement (or addition) of an ActiveX control (which downloads into IE on the quiet) that's not quite so benign ? Darren
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- Re: New DDoS? Alfred Perlstein (Jan 09)
- Re: New DDoS? Ryan Russell (Jan 09)
- Re: New DDoS? Darren Reed (Jan 10)
- Re: New DDoS? Ryan Russell (Jan 10)
- Re: New DDoS? Darren Reed (Jan 10)
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