Forwarded from: Dave Dittrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, InfoSec News wrote:
> Forwarded from: Lance Spitzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, InfoSec News wrote: > > > But Barrett, technical director at Information Risk Management, > > questioned how any hacker could own 600 computers at any one time. > > > > From his experience working with the police, he said that hackers > > typically control no more than 12 systems at any time. > > > > "The sheer mechanics of 600 computers - no. How can you control 600 > > computers?" he said. > > *sigh* > > http://www.honeynet.org/scans/scan27/ > > lance Lance points out a recent example this "expert" missed, but they go back even farther. Networks of hundreds (more like 2000 - 3000) of computers in coordinated attacks were being used in 1999! http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/trinoo.analysis.txt Other examples over the years... http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos/ (I wonder if Robert has heard about Google yet? ;) -- Dave Dittrich Computing & Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Services http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5 - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
