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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Sean Donelan > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:26 AM > > As much as I enjoy finding out about Yahoo & GlobalCenter issues by > reading the newswires, I wonder if there are any lessons we can learn > from these events. Or was this not big enough to get attention of > upper management? I doubt if upper management could have done anything about it. AFAICT, Yahoo was not compromised directly. Reports that I have seen, and some of them are hearsay, indicated that this is one of the very first of a distributed DOS attack. One that CERT recent;ly warned us about. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-01.html > Was there something Yahoo!, GlobalCeneter or other providers could > have done, either individually or in cooperation, to prevent the problem? > > Likewise, could they, individually or in cooperation with other providers, > have shortened the duration or severity by doing something different? highly unlikely. > And finally, would they be more successfull in tracking the source the > the problem by doing something different? The only defense I can think of is to prevent other systems from being "owned". This takes a tightly cooperative environment. We don't have this. At best, we have a loosely co-operative anarchy, with none of the big entities playing together consistently. Evenso, this may not be possible.
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