>> Ahem, actually lack of quality assurance testing in software and
hardware is the biggest threat out on the Internet today. According to
some there hasn't been a new intrusion introduced into the wild except some
type of exploit in code that the original programmers did not catch during
their "extensive" QA process especially those folks located in the Pacific
Northwest.
At 04:30 PM 6/7/2001 -0400, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Zachary Uram wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > So is DDoS attacks biggest security threat out there?
>
>No, most certainly intrusions are the biggest threat out there. Stopping
>intrusions would naturally stop DDoS as well as other attacks.
>
> > It seems to be a big problem. Especially for e-commerce and data
> > warehousing/management systems where uptime = $$.
> > So no one has developed effective countermeasures against
> > arbitrary DDoS attacks? I guess if there was a large enough
> > concerted attack that some group could even overload an entire
> > ISP or an Internet backbone? Do we need laws to give law
> > enforcement/ISPs more power to solve this.
>
>For the most part, the attacks are already against the law- new laws don't
>generally help for that. Making people upgrade and patch systems and
>making software vendors produce more secure systems would be of much more
>help. Reducing the social factors associated with people attacking
>systems wouldn't be a bad thing either. So far not many people have stood
>up to villify the bad guys- that needs to change.
>
>Paul
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