No longer in denial [network security]
Comerford, R.
Spectrum, IEEE
Volume 38, Issue 1, Jan 2001 Page(s):59 - 61
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/6.901143
Summary:The world was made rudely aware of the battle between hackers and
Internet system security administration when public access to the sites
of Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, and other dot-coms was cut off by a new method
of attack called distributed denial of service (DDoS), in February 2000.
To block the sites, one or more hackers sneaked into the computers of
several unsuspecting users connected to the Net, and used these widely
dispersed machines as drones to launch a barrage of false messages. DDoS
is a network problem because it abuses the network's resources; so the
solution has to be in the network. Security experts are planning to
fight the war with DDoS hackers on many fronts-from the Web-server
vanguard through to the personal computers in the trenches. In the wake
of the February attack, their first act has been to try to establish
lines of communications among Web site operators, Internet service
providers (ISPs), and legal authorities. The work of the Internet
Engineering Task Force in tacking the hacker by tracking the flow of
data packets through the network
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