Tag: DDoS
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DDoS: The Message is Often Lost in the Noise
[This was originally published on Infosec Island, now 404. Mirror available.] Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attacks are an extremely simple thing, in concept. This article won’t get into the details of investigation, C&C tracking , dozens of jurisdiction battles, mitigation, or any of the technical aspects of such attacks. Rather, this article is…
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Rebuttal: Microsoft, Unhackable and Ridiculous
[This was originally posted on attrition.org. This is a rebuttal piece to Microsoft: We’re not vulnerable to DDoS attacks (2011-07-06) by Ms. Smith. More to the point, this is intended for John Howie, senior director in the Online Services Security & Compliance (OSSC) group at Microsoft.] Microsoft: We’re not vulnerable to DDoS attacks Microsoft’s John Howie claims…
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Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS)
[This was originally published on Hacker News Network (HNN), re-printed on Digital Mogul, translated to French, and mirrored on attrition.org. Images courtesy of Dale Coddington.] I began writing this article almost one year ago, after the onslaught of smurf attacks being launched against various networks throughout the Internet. At the time, the newly discovered Denial of Service…