This is basically what happened to Yahoo (and a bunch of other "big sites") earlier this year, right. In a nutshell, someone writes a little program (similar to massing old fashioned "ping attacks") - which send huge amounts of "requests" to the site(s) in question - causing them to 'crash' until the 'traffic' lets up. Right? Thanks! ~Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeuce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Informant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 12:27 PM Subject: * informant * U.S. warns of possible New Year's computer blitzes > Saturday December 30, 12:47 AM > > U.S. warns of possible New Year's computer blitzes > > By Jim Wolf > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Computer users should take extra precautions to avoid > possible > cyberattacks over New Year's weekend, U.S. law enforcement authorities have > warned. > > Citing FBI investigations and other information, the National Infrastructure > Protection Center said > Thursday in an advisory note on its Web site that distributed > denial-of-service attacks "could occur over > the holiday." > > Several security companies have cited the threat of such assaults, "and some > have taken place > already," said the infrastructure protection centre, headquartered at the > FBI. > > Rest of article can be read at: > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/001230/80/au0ic.html > > > ---- > post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > url: http://theMezz.com/informant > forum: http://theMezz.com/bbs > subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > notDigest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________ > T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---- post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://theMezz.com/informant forum: http://theMezz.com/bbs subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notDigest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
