Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:02:41 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What kind of attack is this? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991208170040.22730E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.19991208162315.00b5f4e0@mail.computeralt.com>
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This morning there were two posts about distributed attack tools on bugtraq--does either of these sound like what you are experiencing? There's not much you can do about spoofed UDP attacks without significant involvement of providers along the path back to the attacker, but with distributed attack tools not using spoofing, it is feasible. Some people at TIS and I speculated about the possibility of such tools a couple of years ago, and decided that that would suck and sort of left it at that. It's somewhat (in a sick kind of way) gratifying to see that the idea works :-). Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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