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Last night at around midnight, our provider (Cyberstreet.com) suffered a Denial of Service attack. It completely downed their network. I called them this morning, and they told me that it was quite serious, but they were working on getting things back up and running.
Looks like they succeeded!
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Basicaly, in layman's terms so this won't be perfect, you ping a sever with so much data that when it gets done reply to your attack. (As your attack provokes a response) it reaches the point where it doesn't have the bandwidth (resources) to do its normal functions.
It’s not really down as in physically broken, its just really, really occupied.
As a prank writing in the New York Time that Eric Noah is selling his brand new Ferrari for $5 (then a phone number). He will get a thousand garbage phonecalls and his friends can't get through.
Or in computer terms, forcing lots of computers to send data to a certain location (enworld) so the hosts (cyberstreet) computer hardware can't handle it, resulting in downtime.
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Last edited by Psionicist; 9th September 2003 at 08:51 PM..
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I'd be interested in what cyberstreet found out about the attack - I teach these things, and real life examples are always great.
If anyone wants to know more about Denial of Service attacks, one of the best places I've used and referred many students to is www.grc.com
Steve Gibson, of Gibson Research Corporation, is a security specialist, and has a couple great articles about DoS's, as well as the more-likely and common Distributed DOS (DDoS) and now DRDoS (a Reflecting attack).
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If anyone wants to know more about Denial of Service attacks, one of the best places I've used and referred many students to is www.grc.com
Steve Gibson, of Gibson Research Corporation, is a security specialist, and has a couple great articles about DoS's, as well as the more-likely and common Distributed DOS (DDoS) and now DRDoS (a Reflecting attack).
I'm just going to second this, especially the article about how www.grc.com was attacked and how Mr. Gibson responded... it's quite amusing, and very educational.
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