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

Re:The future of DDoS as told by Gibson

[SuiteSisterMary]

Steve Gibson is an idiot.

Re:DrDoS

[Sycraft-fu]

I still agree with the orignal poster that he's a huge alarmist and a sensationalist. Look at his whole shtick on "NanoProbes" (http://grc.com/np/np.htm). He talks about this like it is some new-to-the-world technology. When you read through all the marketing bullshit you come to realise it is nothing more than sending things like empty syn packets and stuff nmap and the like have done for years.

Gibson has a real overinflated sense of his own importance and loves to make it sound like all his discoveries are huge and that the consequences of not obeying his advice are dire. However you begin to notice that he is never mentioned in any of the big security news. He's a smart guy and a deceant programmer, no doubt, but he lets his ego get in the way of his good judgement and has a tendency to exegarate the truth.