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Anatomy of an attack.

Discusses February 2000 distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that affected major United States Web sites. Awareness of and preparations for the possibility of DDOS attacks; Explanation of denial-of-service attacks, including SYN flood, UDP flood, Smurf and fraggle attacks; Spoofing; Program...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 354; no. 8158; pp. 80 - 82
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 2/19/2000
Materias:
Computer crimes
Computer security
Computer access control
Computer software
United States
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Sumario:Discusses February 2000 distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that affected major United States Web sites. Awareness of and preparations for the possibility of DDOS attacks; Explanation of denial-of-service attacks, including SYN flood, UDP flood, Smurf and fraggle attacks; Spoofing; Programs and software tools, including synk and root kit; Daemon and master programs; Trinoo, Tribe Flood Network, Stacheldraft and TFN2K.