New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer

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New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 1, 2008 @12:08AM 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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I cant believe this is the first comment, by Aliks · 2008-10-01 00:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Some DOS attack on Slashdot in progress?
1. Re:I cant believe this is the first comment, by neokushan · 2008-10-01 00:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, some stupid user deltree'd the whole site!
  
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2. Re:I cant believe this is the first comment, by mcgrew · 2008-10-01 03:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  No, it's my fault. I linked to slashdot from slashdot, slashdotting slashdot. So slashdot's slashdotted.
  Sorry.
  
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3. Re:I cant believe this is the first comment, by neokushan · 2008-10-01 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  AHAHAHAHAHA! You left your system open to hacking! HAHAHAHA! Look at all this animal porn you have! HAHAHA I'm deleting your OS's Kernel right n
  
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Pfffft by MyLongNickName · 2008-10-01 00:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Doesn't affect me. I haven't used DOS in YEARS. Some folks need to move up to Windows 3.1. That is where it is at.

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1. Re:Pfffft by eserteric · 2008-10-01 00:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Uhh, you know that's still based on DOS right? You should update to Windows 95 like me to be safe.
2. Re:Pfffft by Remloc · 2008-10-01 00:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Nope, NT 3.1 circa '93. We were an early adopter on a currently top of the line Pentium (1)--50 MHz, I believe. Thing would BSOD if you more than looked at it funny.
Re:Go for it, take on my machine! by BenoitRen · 2008-10-01 00:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Thief! That's MY address!
pff by amnezick · 2008-10-01 00:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Typical /. reaction to potential danger:
"Hah. Until I don't taste nuclear winter snow I don't believe that's gonna happen'"
Give the man his nuke. He earned it.

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Re:fearmongering by Cro+Magnon · 2008-10-01 00:41 · Score: 4, Funny

(this having to wait 5 minutes between posts is a pain in the ass. Anyone else stuck with this restriction?)
My sig answers your question. :)

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I'm safe by goddidit · 2008-10-01 01:24 · Score: 5, Funny

This doesn't me since use I UDP all communications communications for.

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Re:DON'T PANIC! by shrikel · 2008-10-01 04:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh no, me too!!
C:\Documents and Settings\Adam>cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies 'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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