At 04:07 PM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Ok, I have to say I've never seen this one in the typical Hoax "alerts"
>people pass around, I'm not sure how these programs can "lie dormant until
>activated" (sure crontab, but it'd be pretty obvious somethings up..)
>anyone confirm this is a hoax?
There is a type of DOS (Denial of service) attack going on now which I read
about yesterday which sounds just like what your article describes. Many
machines are compromised and server as attackers. They all send ping (for
example) to the host to be attacked at the same time. This attack floods
the bandwidth available to the host (according to what I read, up to a
T3!!!) and brings the host to its knees. The attack is difficult to trace
since it is distributed and does not attack the host directly, only uses up
the available bandwidth.
Mark
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