Re: Denial of service

[Roger Nebel <roger () homecom com>]

I would add:

Attacker is a moron (e.g., is unaware that his/her actions are causing
problems for others - forwarding the good times virus warning)

Tupshin Harper wrote:
> 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

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