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Re: TCP Resource Exhaustion Attacks
From: RB <aoz.syn () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:01:21 -0600
They have probably added enough flourishes and implementation details to their attack that they consider their attack to be original and unique.
I find there to be two classes of researchers: those that present and those that discover, and seldom do the two interesect. Unless my alethiometer is completely incorrect (which it may well be), those several of the prior class I've met and discussed any of their work with are not much more than moderately good social engineers with more words than skills. It is usually trivial to exceed their technical depth in minutes if not moments.
an amazing coincidence that when we've seen this sort of thing lately, the only safe (and "responsible") time to release the details always happens to be exactly when the researchers are giving their big presentations.
Why not? They _need_ that $1500/head to afford the hookers & blow for the next month of partying before they dredge up the same old tired presentations (get rich or die trying the blackhat way, anyone?) and spew them before another sold-out crowd of credulous, hero-worshipping managers. RB _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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