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Re: Info on the DoS attacks.
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw () insync net>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:31:48 -0600 (CST)
According to what the FBI said in the announcement they made tonight with CERT and the US Justice Department, it's a packet based attack that's directed at hosts and filling up pipes in the process. They didn't come out and say this, but from the details they did divulge that's what I was able to gather. However, as was evidinced by the C-SPAN coverage of this press conference, it's an on-going investigation, so official details are going to be sketchy for the time being, though I do get the impression from the FBI and CERT representatives that they haven't even started sifting through the logs yet. The mouthpieces who were used at the conference certainly didn't sound too terribly clued on the specifics. -- Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw () insync net Computer Security Consultant and Programmer Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Larry Snyder wrote:
From what I've read so far, it's still not clear whether it was anattack on a host(s) or a pipe(s). It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to release at least that much info.... -ls- Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com> wrote:From my perspective, corporations are filtering information through clueless PR flacks to a (relatively clueless) media. I can't buy that sites hit by an attack 48 hours ago "have no idea what is going on." If that's the case, some people need to be fired real quick.
Current thread:
- Info on the DoS attacks. Rodney Caston (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Joe Shaw (Feb 09)
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- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Sean Donelan (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Rodney Caston (Feb 09)
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- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Declan McCullagh (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Larry Snyder (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Joe Shaw (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. danielle v (Feb 10)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Joe Shaw (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Rodney Caston (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. John Hawkinson (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Randy Bush (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Daniel Hagerty (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Joe Shaw (Feb 09)
- Re: Info on the DoS attacks. Wayne Bouchard (Feb 10)