RE: IP Spoofing.

[Rick Smith <rick_smith () securecomputing com>]

At 09:08 PM 9/29/99 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:

> Chapter 1 describes Mitnick's compromise of Shimomura's system via Syn
> flooding and IP spoofing.

When working on Internet Cryptography, one reviewer challenged me on a
third hand report I included of Mitnick's activities. Does anyone have a
reference that explicitly ties Shimomura's penetration to Mitnick? Is that
in Shimomura's book? ("Takedown" ??)

I admit I've been trying to avoid Shimomura's book since reports made it
sound too much like James Bond wannabe stuff. On the other hand, I really
enjoyed Victor Sheymov's "Tower of Secrets," and that's probably just a
compendium of every cool story he'd ever heard that was unlikely to be in
US reports (plus, I suppose, the story of his CIA sponsored escape).


Rick.
smith () securecomputing com
"Internet Cryptography" at http://www.visi.com/crypto/