Web Site Attacks Are On The Rise

Nicholas Roussos writes "According to recent numbers from 2004, website attacks are on the rise, and many of them are being performed by mischevious school kids. Some of their favorite targets include U.S. government and military websites."

Comments

Build a better operating system.

[zymano]

Quit using the C language to write operating systems.

No, not kidding. It's too easy to hang yourself with that language. Add to that the size of todays kernels with millions of lines of code and you will have problems.

Small kernel OS like Openvms or one constructed with a language with bounds checking and garbage collection would be way more secure. There is an oberon operating system called blue bottle .

http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/index.html

One more point. Try and find a way to stop scanning and report those that do to some central internet authority. Oh , forgot........Don't have one.

Re:Careful!

[maxpublic]

Why put the burden on ISPs? If Windows ships with the services shut down and without the capability of remotely activating them then the problem is solved.

Max

Re:No surprises there, then

[maxpublic]

This is a major problem.

This is *your* major problem and it's up to you to solve it. For example, by securing your servers and ip-banning the folks making the malicious attacks. Why are you insisting that others do your work for you?

Max