RE: Recent Attacks

["Starkey, Kyle" <Kyle.Starkey () msdw com>]

I don't believe that this was the total objective.  I believe (and this is
only conjecture) that their point was the actual vulnerability itself.  The
DoS and the newly created DDos attacks are VERY simple to use and widely
available.  I think the point was "Hey, check out this great piece of code
that is really easy to use and the MAJOR players on the internet are still
vulnerable."  I am hopeing it was more of a wake up call than it was
malicious, but who knows.

-Kyle
Information Security
MSDW Online

-----Original Message-----
From: hnd () asu edu [mailto:hnd () asu edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:03 PM
To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: Recent Attacks


hi,

I was just wondering that The latest attacks on the popular web sites had
only
one objective behind it: to bring the web sites and render it useless for
the
period of attack. If these hacker really do want to create massive scale
problems why not hack the root servers?!!!!!!!  This will bring down the
whole
internet.

Hoshil