DoS Attacks Persisting, On The Rise

thelizman writes "One of the most basic "hacks" (to use the media's bastardization of the term) is a Denial of Service attack. While not getting you any access to data on a machine, DoS attacks effectively shut down machines by making them inaccessable to others. CNN is carrying and IDG.net story about how DoS attacks are still one of the leading threats on the Internet, and are actually on the rise as the sophistication of the attacks increases." We get them constantly- some intentional, some not. It's really a pain.

Comments

DOS is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone at my company has upgraded to Windows 3.1. I don't know why Slashdot is still talking about DOS

aka the Slashdot Effect

[CaseStudy]

Get them? You produce them constantly.

Re:MS-DOS

[NanoGator]

"If someone 0wned the Windows Update server and used it for a DoS attack..."

I th1nk the reas0n tha+ hackerZ d0n't use M$ s0ftware iZ +hat m0st 0f everyth1ng they wr1te w0uld have squ1ggly lineZ under it.