Re: Smurf Broadcast DoS attack

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:35:14 +0200, X <falken () area66 com>  said:

> This mail could open a discussion about the Internet insecurity, how to
> avoid this attacks, possible solutions, possible ways to analyze the
> results. 

A noble idea, but discussion has already been started, quite some time
ago:

http://www.sans.org/topten.htm
http://www.sans.org/dosstep/index.htm
http://www.sans.org/ddos_roadmap.htm

http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/documents/  has stuff on DDOS.

Richard Steenbergen has some thoughts:
http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras/projects/dos/dos.txt

The Lighthouse project done by MERIT for Darpa:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/lighthouse

Also:

> I understand that there are other DARPA funded efforts working on 
> different aspects of the DOS problem (automatic detection, trace back, 
> counter measures).
>
> Take a look at "Networking & Distributed Systems" under
>
>      http://www.darpa.mil/ito/ResearchAreas.html
>
> In particular see:
>
>      http://www.darpa.mil/ito/psum2000/J032-0.html
>      http://www.darpa.mil/ito/psum2000/J910-0.html
>      http://www.darpa.mil/ito/psum2000/J028-0.html

The DANTE people in the UK were also working on some in-house things,
but I don't know if those were ever published.

You'll notice that those are all links to OLD stuff.  The conclusions
to draw are pretty obvious..
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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