RE: Denial of service

["Tupshin Harper" <tupshin () tupshin com>]

There are generally three reasons for an attack:
1) Attacker wants to obtain information.
2) Attacker wants to obtain use of resources
3) Attacker wants to inflict damage on the attacked
4) Attacker wants to climb Mt. Everest(because it's there).

Number three is frequently overlooked by those that should know better.
Many otherwise secure networks/systems are susceptible to denial of service
attacks, typically motivated by number three.  Examples of denial of service
attacks range from crashing a server to using a thermo-nuclear device on
your ISP.

-Tupshin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net
> [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net]On Behalf Of City
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 10:25 AM
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Denial of service
>
>
> Hello,
>
> A quick question for anyone out there...What exactly is denial of service?
> And how can it be used to attack a particular server? I'm new to this, as
> I've only been working for about a year, and hear this term from time to
> time...thx.
>
> City
>
> "Whatever good I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way
> again."   -David Gemmell