NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday January 22, 2004 @03:08PM from the get-a-security-plan dept.

treerex writes "NIST (the US National Institute of Standards and Technology) has just released a 148 page report entitled Computer Security Incident Handling Guide (PDF). It covers the gamut, from setting up a response team to dealing with specific types of attacks: DoS, trojans, worms, malicious code, and unauthorized access. While written by a team from NIST and the contractor Booz-Allen Hamilton (BAH), they appear to have taken input from CERT and luminaries like Spafford. It is an interesting read."

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Re:Looks like the Democrats could do with reading by SEWilco · 2004-01-22 20:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Not a hack attack.
Just a DOS attack by Democrats on behalf of special interest groups trying to control the Federal courts. It is described here (pdf).
Not to be confused with the planned social engineering of the Senate Intelligence Committee. That was a plan to probe for weaknesses, and announce an investigation whether weaknesses are found or not. There effectively was a DOS when the attack was discovered and the interfaces were turned off to block the attack.