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New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer

Posted by kdawson on from the fighting-a-resource-war-with-an-unfair-advantage dept.

ancientribe writes "Hacker RSnake blogs about a newly discovered and deadly denial-of-service attack that could well be the next big threat to the Internet as a whole. It goes after a broadband Internet connection and KOs machines on the other end such that they stay offline even after the attack is over. It spans various systems, too: the pair of Swedish researchers who found it have already contacted firewall, operating system, and Web-enabled device vendors whose products are vulnerable to this attack." Listen to the interview (MP3) — English starts a few minutes in — and you might find yourself convinced that we have a problem. The researchers claim that they have been able to take down every system with a TCP/IP stack that they have attempted; and they know of no fix or workaround.

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  1. Re:Pfffft by Toll_Free · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your full of shit.

    I ran Win 3.1 on a 386 DX 16 and it ran fine.

    If your installs work as you say they do, YOU are the problem, and need to go back to windows 101.

    Or maybe just continue to FUD the world with lies.

    --Toll_Free