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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:Nah by (Score+5,+Flamebait) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I think I see how this works.... Come on mods, hurry and mod me funny! Cut me in on the action before it's too lat





    (just kidding, I'm still here. But still waiting for the funny...)

  2. Re:fearmongering by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    please no more whoring your blog on here, we get too much of it and between the blog posts and the slashvertisments i'm pretty full up on my dribble quota.

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    If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
  3. Re:Nah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's amazing how a typo at the end can be interpreted as funny.

    Maybe it works for me, too? Let me tr

  4. Re:fearmongering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    WHOOSH

  5. Re:DON'T PANIC! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    On Ubuntu 8.04 it seems to be turned off by default.