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Re: Interesting infographic on the history of firewalls
From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:27:54 -0400
Dotzero wrote:
http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/infographic-history-firewall-general.jpg
Not bad! The only part that made me go, "scrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeee... wait!" was the "firewall is an invisible wall" Um, no, the only firewall that's 'invisible' is called a "switch" ...Oh, and the first DOS attack was not discovered in 2000. It was far earlier than that. I'm not sure when, though. I was party to discussions regarding 'testing' IP stacks with fuzzed packets in 1990 or thereabouts... At the very least, jsz's
stack-jamming trick (multiple TCP half-open connections overloading queue) was used by Mitnick on Tsutomu's machine in 1994. So the 2000 figure is at least 6 years off, probably more like 16. mjr. -- Marcus J. Ranum, CSO, Tenable Network Security, inc. http://www.tenable.com _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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