1 posted on
10/22/2002 4:54:10 PM PDT by
j_tull
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To: j_tull
FR seemed a little slow yesterday, now I know why.
2 posted on
10/22/2002 4:55:56 PM PDT by
j_tull
To: j_tull
I would certainly favor the development of technology that would counterattack, melting the offender's computer into a dripping puddle of molten metal, or preferably exploding into shrapnel.
3 posted on
10/22/2002 4:56:55 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: j_tull
No idea where it came from. How is that?
4 posted on
10/22/2002 4:57:17 PM PDT by
Arkinsaw
To: j_tull
But most Internet users didn't notice because the attack only lasted one hour. Every FReeper that was screaming for FReepadone noticed....including me!
To: j_tull
Service was restored after experts enacted defensive measures and the attack suddenly stopped. Testing...testing...testing
10 posted on
10/22/2002 5:03:47 PM PDT by
Samwise
To: j_tull
That explains why my ISP lost its DNS and Gateway connections at about that time for the first time in two years.
To: j_tull
All your root are belong to us...
To: j_tull
So that's what happened - and this user sure noticed.
To: swarthyguy
Is this what you were talking about?
To: j_tull; swarthyguy
Office of Homeland Security and the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Hmmm, I didn't see in this article where the attacks came from. But I can guess.
To: j_tull
Our GCI Internet connection to the outside world was down for 6 hours today. No explanation given so far.
To: j_tull
I think the statement: The origin of the attack was not known., is BS.They don't want us to know.
26 posted on
10/22/2002 5:20:40 PM PDT by
philetus
To: j_tull
I was in Cozumel, Mexico when it happened. Slow is the norm there so I noticed nothing. Even the dogs are slow.
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32 posted on
10/22/2002 5:58:51 PM PDT by
unixfox
To: j_tull
For those of you wondering how the source of the attack can remain an unknown: There are several known attacks that permit the attacker to send packets with "spoofed" source IP addresses; an attacker could easily plug
your IP address into the source IP field so that from the victim's perspective, the attack would appear to be coming from your machine. Some attacks cause innocent third parties' servers to send unsolicited SYN/ACK packets to the victim's host. This is done in such a way that the machines being used to send the SYN/ACK packets each send only a trickle of them, barely noticeable to an admin who isn't looking for them, but in concert with hundreds or thousands of other machines the effect is a flood of traffic at the victim's end.
Counterattacking the IP address contained in the incoming packets would almost certainly be a bad idea because there's a high probability that the source IP is false, thus you'd be attacking a server that may not even exist or at worst is totally innocent, or belongs to a server that is simply doing what it is designed to do (as in the case of the unsolicited SYN/ACK attack).
To: j_tull
I had a mysterious non-response from hotmail yesterday. Nothing like it ever before.
To: j_tull
I felt that... Wonder if it was a 'trial run'?
40 posted on
10/22/2002 7:03:13 PM PDT by
RCW2001
To: j_tull
The reason Microsoft stuff should never be put on internet servers. I wouldn't lay bets on what's running those backbone servers; but, can anyone who runs MS at work or home imagine the damage that could occur by using an MS based web server knowing it's not only junkware but also the prime target for virii(misery loves company btw)?
45 posted on
10/22/2002 7:54:41 PM PDT by
Havoc
To: j_tull
j_tull... I meant to send reply #48 to you...
To: j_tull
Here's my personal, gut feeling (and I'm in the computer security industry). This was a test. The real thing is going down on 26 October - the date selected for nationwide anti-war rallies.
Mind you, I've been wrong before and this is purely a gut feeling. But the hacker community seems to be in lockstep against "Dubya's war for oil to avenge his daddy" and they've been itching to find an excuse to use their Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) zombie farms for a common hacktivist cause. 26 October marks the biggest anti-war event yet.
52 posted on
10/22/2002 9:10:45 PM PDT by
Spiff
To: j_tull
The article said this was on Monday. It was also happening Sunday evening for a period of time.
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