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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Huge smurf attack
At 09:48 AM 1/12/1999 -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote: >On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +0000, Michael Shields put this into my mailbox: > >> In article <[email protected]>, >> Dalvenjah FoxFire <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Much as I hate to say it, this seems to be one area where industry >> > self-regulation has utterly failed. I don't know what would be a better >> > solution; I hate to suggest government regulation. But I'm at a loss here. >> >> Civil liability? > >Possibly. I don't know of anyone who's tried suing over a smurf attack. >If I could afford the lawyer and the court time I'd do it myself. >All we really need is one or two good cases to establish some case law; >then the rest of us can have some legal precedent to point to and say >"If you don't fix your networks, you're screwed." Criminal. DOS attacks are covered by 18 USC 1030. And I think there might even be smurf included in the Kevin Mitnick case, but I'm not sure about that. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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