Network Magazine Posted By: Dave Wreski 12/31/2001
Nice summary of the various network threats on the Internet in 2001. "DoS attacks, worms, and wireless vulnerabilities constantly hover at the edges of your networks. Squash these bugs before they bite. DoS and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks are well understood. The perpetrator bombards a target with more traffic than it can handle. The bad traffic prevents legitimate users from accessing the resources under attack. DoS and DDoS work either by swamping the CPU on a target machine with connection requests, or by soaking up network bandwidth with spurious traffic. A single computer can launch a DoS attack, but most attacks use numerous machines, either in a coordinated effort by multiple users or by commandeering unwitting computers (often called zombie hosts).
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