IP: re: DoS technology apparently lesser-known fifth horseman of the apocalypse

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James S. Tyre" <j.s.tyre () cyberpass net>
To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: IP: re: DoS technology apparently lesser-known fifth horseman
of the apocalypse


> At 03:14 PM 2/25/2000 -0500, Dave Farber wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ezor, Jonathan (Legal)" <jezor () mimeo com>
> > To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 12:27 PM
> > Subject: RE: DoS technology apparently lesser-known fifth horseman of the
> > apocalypse
>
> Related to Jonathan Ezor's piece, there (potentially) is a nasty new dDoS
> development, which I've heard rumors of for a few days, but have not seen
> reported anywhere until this morning.
>
> Apparantly, variants of trinoo now are showing up on Windows machines,
> where the ones used in early February were only on *nix machines.  Given
> the relative number of Windows machines out there, with always-on
> connections and which are wholly insecure, the number of platforms from
> which dDoS attacks *could* be launched may increase dramatically.
>
> This morning's report is in The Industry Standard,
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0%2C1151%2C12313%2C00.html?nl=mg
> What it says about James Madison University is what I had been hearing.
>
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