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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: WEF cyber-protest (was Re: distributed attack, high or not)
So, this is thinly veiled hacking, in the name of protest. Very nice. I hope the folks doing this realize that this is no different than throwing a brick through a window, or otherwise damaging people's property, and that they are essentially vandals. - Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Sean Donelan > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:46 AM > To: Steven M. Bellovin > Cc: Joseph T. Klein; [email protected] > Subject: WEF cyber-protest (was Re: distributed attack, high or not) > > > > > We're entering protest season. The World Economic Forum opens > today in New York City. Some protesters have launched what they > call a cyber-protest using several different tools. So far it > appears directed at a few selected, although well-known, corporations. > > http://www.geocities.com/net_strike_net/english_active.html > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > It's a classic DDoS attack, aimed at you. Someone has lots of zombie > > machines out there; at some point, they sent a command packet to all of > > them, saying "bombard such-and-such an IP address for 3600 seconds". > > > > Common? It happens frequently to someone. Precursor? Entirely > > possible, though there's no way to know for sure. But it can be very > > bad -- see http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2103098,00.html > > for what happened to a British ISP. >
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