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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Info on the DoS attacks.
On Wed, 09 February 2000, Rodney Caston wrote: > It's because people are being very closed mouthed with this, the corps > either have no idea what is going on or do not wish to share what they > know, and those involved with the attacks have done a good job of keeping > silent. Besides comparing Morris's worm to what is going on now is hardly > fair, the net was a very different place then, and his cpu cycle hog of a > program was alot easier to deal with and detect. In past cases, the "crackers" have eventually been caught not by closed-mouth corps and law enforcement, but by "civilians." The closed-mouthness just seems to be extending the list of victims because the later ones didn't know how to protect themselves until after they got hit. Then after a few hours of downtime, they figure out which filters to install. Wouldn't it be nice to know what filters to install to protect your web site before it gets hit?
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