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Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
From: dvv () sprint net (Dima Volodin)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 13:44:52 -0400 (EDT)
It just demonstrates the decline of the US education system one more time - one doesn't need _any_ programming (apart from a rudimentary ability to write shell while loops) to do SYN flooding attacks. Dima Craig A. Huegen writes:
A friend of mine gave me a photocopy of a page in the latest 2600 magazine. It was the source code for a SYN flooder on Linux, with a description of what it does and a notice on how it can really cause denial-of-service attacks. I can't remember if it also supplied the source for the source-spoof kernel patch or not, but it does mention that you should use the source-spoof patch to hide your identity. So, what does this say? Look for more 13-year-olds causing denial-of-service attacks for the hell of it. It seems a lot of the providers SYN flooders like to attack are the ones which have IRC servers, but the flooders attack the more traditional services of those providers, too. /cah ---- Craig A. Huegen CCIE || || Network Analyst, IS-Network/Telecom || || cisco Systems, Inc., 250 West Tasman Drive |||| |||| San Jose, CA 95134, (408) 526-8104 ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. email: chuegen () cisco com c i s c o S y s t e m s
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- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Taner Halicioglu (Sep 09)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Curtis Villamizar (Sep 12)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Perry E. Metzger (Sep 12)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) alex (Sep 13)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Mr. Jeremy Hall (Sep 13)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) alex (Sep 14)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Mr. Jeremy Hall (Sep 14)
- High-speed filtering boxes (Was: Re: SYN floods...) Paul Frommeyer (Sep 19)
- Re: High-speed filtering boxes (Was: Re: SYN floods...) Deepak Jain (Sep 19)
- Re: High-speed filtering boxes (Was: Re: SYN floods...) Paul Frommeyer (Sep 19)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Dima Volodin (Sep 09)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Dick St.Peters (Sep 09)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Avi Freedman (Sep 09)
- Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Perry E. Metzger (Sep 09)