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Re: Sitefinder and DDoS
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () gettcomm com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:55:08 -0400
> Let's also assume someone sets up a popular webpage with malwareHTML causing it, perhaps with a time delay, to issue rapid GETs to deliberately nonexistent domains.You don't even have to imagine that. Imagine a long-term port 80 Denial of Service (DoS) attack against a given website (using the website url rather than IP, which is not uncommon). Imagine the attacked domain administrator removes their DNS records from the registry to alleviate the attack. The attack is now directed at the Verisign Sitefinder service. Adam
OUCH. Yet worse.
Current thread:
- Sitefinder and DDoS Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS bmanning (Oct 09)
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- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Petri Helenius (Oct 09)
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- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS bmanning (Oct 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Sitefinder and DDoS Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Petri Helenius (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Kee Hinckley (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Petri Helenius (Oct 09)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Bruce Campbell (Oct 10)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Owen DeLong (Oct 10)
- Re: Sitefinder and DDoS Petri Helenius (Oct 09)