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DoS Attacks Persisting, On The Rise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aint-it-the-truth dept.

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.

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  1. Obvious... by eli173 · · Score: 2, Redundant

    > We get them constantly- some intentional, some not. It's really a pain.

    And what about causing them? /. effect? Hmmmm???

  2. DOS, aka /. effect by RollingThunder · · Score: 2, Redundant
    We get them constantly- some intentional, some not. It's really a pain.

    And create them inadvertently all the time. ;)
  3. They're about to come under one... by shankark · · Score: 2, Redundant

    a DoS attack no one can resist.... the /. effect of course - with half a million geeks around the world clicking on their mouse in one swift move and crash comes whatever machinery there is buttressing their site ;)

  4. Re:DoS sucks by Jester998 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "It's the type of attack I've never understood: it doesn't gain the attacker anything (unlike rooting a box), it's nothing but being a hoodlum."

    Why do punks spray-paint "JoE wUz HerE" on warehouses? That doesn't gain them anything, either. Likewise, I don't understand their motives. As THHGTtG says, "there [is] always a significant number of people in the Galaxy who [are] not in their right minds."

    Maybe it's the recognition they get (the likelyhood is that people who launch successful (D)DoS attacks are bragging about it on IRC 5 minutes later), or maybe they do it for kicks. Either way, this is more of a social/behavioural problem than a technological one. So long as there is a group (no matter how small) who think that bringing down sites is cool, DDoS attacks will persist.

    - Jester