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RE: Denial of service
From: "Tupshin Harper" <tupshin () tupshin com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:44:12 -0700
There are generally three reasons for an attack: 1) Attacker wants to obtain information. 2) Attacker wants to obtain use of resources 3) Attacker wants to inflict damage on the attacked 4) Attacker wants to climb Mt. Everest(because it's there). Number three is frequently overlooked by those that should know better. Many otherwise secure networks/systems are susceptible to denial of service attacks, typically motivated by number three. Examples of denial of service attacks range from crashing a server to using a thermo-nuclear device on your ISP. -Tupshin
-----Original Message----- From: owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net]On Behalf Of City Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 10:25 AM To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: Denial of service Hello, A quick question for anyone out there...What exactly is denial of service? And how can it be used to attack a particular server? I'm new to this, as I've only been working for about a year, and hear this term from time to time...thx. City "Whatever good I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again." -David Gemmell
Current thread:
- Denial of service City (Aug 17)
- Re: Denial of service Joseph S. D. Yao (Aug 18)
- Re: Denial of service Kevin T. Shivers (Aug 18)
- RE: Denial of service Tupshin Harper (Aug 18)
- Re: Denial of service Roger Nebel (Aug 19)
- RE: Denial of service Ted Doty (Aug 19)
- RE: Denial of service David C Niemi (Aug 19)
- RE: Denial of service Ted Doty (Aug 23)
- RE: Denial of service David C Niemi (Aug 23)
- RE: Denial of service Marcus J. Ranum (Aug 23)
- Re: Denial of service ICMan (Aug 19)
- Re: Denial of service Ted Doty (Aug 23)
- Re: Denial of service Gigi Sullivan (Aug 19)