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  • Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3

    05/30/2008 11:45:50 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 2 replies · 100+ views
    revision3.com ^ | May 29, 2008 | Jim Louderback
    Excerpt - As many of you know, Revision3’s servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It’s an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn’t your normal cybercrime – there’s a chilling twist at the end. Here’s what happened, and why we’re even more concerned today, after it’s over, than we were on Saturday when it started. ~ snip ~ That’s what happened to us. Another device on the internet flooded one of our servers with an overdose of SYN packets, and it shut down – bringing the rest of...